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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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Security Seals on Voting Machines
Related to this blog post from Wednesday, here's a paper that looks at security seals on voting machines. Andrew W. Appel, "Security Seals on Voting Machines:...
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FBI-Sponsored Backdoors
From a review of Susan Landau's Surveillance or Security?: To catch up with the new technologies of malfeasance, FBI director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon...
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Status Report: Liars and Outliers
Last weekend, I completely reframed the book. I realized that the book isn't about security. It's about trust. I'm writing about how society induces people to...
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Insider Attack Against Diebold Voting Machines
This is both news and not news: Indeed, the Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary...
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The website has some sample things you can do to to celebrate...
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Isaac Asimov on Security Theater
A great find: In his 1956 short story, "Let's Get Together," Isaac Asimov describes security measures proposed to counter a terrorist threat: "Consider further...
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HTC Android Vulnerability
Custom HTC firmware breaks standard permissions and allows rogue apps to access location, address book, and account info without authorization.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Interesting Squid Recipes
Plus a slide show of pretty dishes.
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Insecure Chrome Extensions
An analysis of extensions to the Chrome browser shows that 25% of them are insecure: We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions...
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Problems with Mac OS X Lion Passwords
Seems like some dumb mistakes. News article.
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Tor Arms Race
Iran blocks Tor, and Tor releases a workaround on the same day. How did the filter work technically? Tor tries to make its traffic look like a web browser talking...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Life of Deep-Sea Squid
There's evidence of indiscriminate fertilization in deep-sea squid. They mate with any other squid the encounter, male or female. This unusual behaviour, they...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0
It's the Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS Tool, or BEAST: The tool is based on a blockwise-adaptive chosen-plaintext attack, a man-in-the-middle approach that injects...
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Three Emerging Cyber Threats
On Monday I participated a panel at the Information Systems Forum in Berlin. The moderator asked us what the top three emerging threats were in cyberspace. I...
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An Interesting Software Liability Proposal
This proposal is worth thinking about. Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality...
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U.S.-Australia Cyberwar Treaty
The long-standing ANZUS military treaty now includes cyberspace attacks: According to Reuters, the decision was made in discussions between the two countries this...
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