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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: Squid Purse
Perfect for an evening out. 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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New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking. A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking...
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NSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that...
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An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy: Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, nonprofit Firefox...
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Defeating Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication
CISA is now pushing phishing-resistant multifactor authentication. Roger Grimes has an excellent post reminding everyone that “phishing-resistant” is not “phishing...
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Using Wi-FI to See through Walls
This technique measures device response time to determine distance: The scientists tested the exploit by modifying an off-the-shelf drone to create a flying scanning...
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The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. He was convicted of crimes related to covering up a cyberattack against Uber...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture
In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland. It’s the largest giant squid ever recorded—although scientists now...
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NSA on Supply Chain Security
The NSA (together with CISA) has published a long report on supply-chain security: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Suppliers...
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Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked
It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked: According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of...
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Apple Only Commits to Patching Latest OS Version
People have suspected this for a while, but Apple has made it official. It only commits to fully patching the latest version of its OS, even though it claims to...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing
China claims that it is “engaging in responsible squid fishing”: Chen Xinjun, dean of the College of Marine Sciences at Shanghai Ocean University, made the remarks...
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Critical Vulnerability in Open SSL
There are no details yet, but it’s really important that you patch Open SSL 3.x when the new version comes out on Tuesday. How bad is “Critical”? According tocritical...
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Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million...
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On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Reproductive Habits of Giant Squid
Interesting: A recent study on giant squid that have washed ashore along the Sea of Japan coast has raised the possibility that the animal has a different reproductive...
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Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View
Machine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because the attacks are so varied—and it seems that each new one is weirder than the next. Here’s the latest...
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Interview with Signal’s New President
Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker: WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages...
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Museum Security
Interesting interview: Banks don’t take millions of dollars and put them in plastic bags and hang them on the wall so everybody can walk right up to them. But we...
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