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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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SOUFFLETROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
One of the top secret NSA documents published by Der Spiegel is a 50-page catalog of "implants" from the NSA's Tailored Access Group. Because the individual implants...
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How the NSA Threatens National Security
Secret NSA eavesdropping is still in the news. Details about once secret programs continue to leak. The Director of National Intelligence has recently declassified...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid New Year
Happy squid new year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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1971 FBI Burglary
Interesting story: ...burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with...
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JETPLOW: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: JETPLOW (TS//SI//REL) JETPLOW is a firmware persistence implant for Cisco...
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Security Risks of Embedded Systems
We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself -- as with the Internet of Things...
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HALLUXWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HALLUXWATER (TS//SI//REL) The HALLUXWATER Persistence Back Door implant...
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The Failure of Privacy Notices and Consumer Choice
Paper from First Monday: "Transaction costs, privacy, and trust: The laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy." Abstract:...
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GOURMETTROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
Continuing our walk through the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GOURMETTROUGH (TS//SI//REL) GOURMETTROUGH is a user configurable...
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Matt Blaze on TAO's Methods
Matt Blaze makes a point that I have been saying for a while now: Don't get me wrong, as a security specialist, the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) scare...
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FEEDTROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: FEEDTROUGH (TS//SI//REL) FEEDTROUGH is a persistence technique for two software...
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I've Joined Co3 Systems
For decades, I've said that good security is a combination of protection, detection, and response. In 1999, when I formed Counterpane Internet Security, I focused...
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NSA Documents from the Spiegel Story
There are more source documents from the recent Spiegel story on the NSA than I realized. Here is what I think is the complete list: "Tailored Access Operations...
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NSA Exploit of the Day: IRONCHEF
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog is IRONCHEF: IRONCHEF (TS//SI//REL) IRONCHEF provides access persistence to...
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Cost/Benefit Analysis of NSA's 215 Metadata Collection Program
It has amazed me that the NSA doesn't seem to do any cost/benefit analyses on any of its surveillance programs. This seems particularly important for bulk surveillance...
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NSA Exploit of the Day: DEITYBOUNCE
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog is DEITYBOUNCE: DEITYBOUNCE (TS//SI//REL) DEITYBOUNCE provides software application...
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"Military Style" Raid on California Power Station
I don't know what to think about this: Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power...
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More about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations Unit
Der Spiegel has a good article on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit: basically, its hackers. The article also has more details on how QUANTUM -- particularly...
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