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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: SQUIDS Game
It's coming to the iPhone and iPad, then to other platforms: In SQUIDS, players will command a small army of stretchy, springy sea creatures to protect an idyllic...
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The Efficacy of Post-9/11 Counterterrorism
This is an interesting article. The authors argue that the whole war-on-terror nonsense is useless -- that's not new -- but that the security establishment knows...
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A Professional ATM Theft
Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) lost $13M to an ATM theft earlier this year: KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered previously undisclosed details...
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Unredacted U.S. Diplomatic WikiLeaks Cables Published
It looks as if the entire mass of U.S. diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks had is available online somewhere. How this came about is a good illustration of how security...
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Forged Google Certificate
There's been a forged Google certificate out in the wild for the past month and a half. Whoever has it -- evidence points to the Iranian government -- can, if...
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Job Opening: TSA Public Affairs Specialist
This job can't be fun: This Public Affairs Specialist position is located in the Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs (SCPA), Transportation Security...
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The Effects of Social Media on Undercover Policing
Social networking sites make it very difficult, if not impossible, to have undercover police officers: "The results found that 90 per cent of female officers were...
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Facebook Privacy Guide
It's actually pretty good. Also note that the site is redesigning its privacy. As we learned from Microsoft, nothing motivates a company to improve its security...
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Details of the RSA Hack
We finally have some, even though the company isn't talking: So just how well crafted was the e-mail that got RSA hacked? Not very, judging by what F-Secure found...
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Screenshots of Chinese Hacking Tool
It's hard to know how serious this really is: The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the documentary for six seconds
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Ulleungdo, Korea
The industry is in decline: A generation ago, most of the island's 10,000 residents worked in the squid industry, either as sellers like Kim or as farmer-fishermen...
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Preventing the Theft of Wire Cutters
This is a picture of a pair of wire cutters secured to a table with a wire. Someone isn't thinking this through....
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The Problem with Using the Cold War Metaphor to Describe Cyberspace Risks
Nice essay on the problems with talking about cyberspace risks using "Cold War" metaphors: The problem with threat inflation and misapplied history is that there...
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Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11
John Mueller and his students analyze the 33 cases of attempted terrorism in the U.S. since 9/11. So few of them are actually real, and so many of them were created...
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Funniest Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Nick Helm won an award for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Nick Helm: "I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and...
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Moving 211 Tons of Gold
The security problems associated with moving $12B in gold from London to Venezuela. It seems to me that Ch
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The Security Risks of Not Teaching Malware
Essay by George Ledin on the security risks of not teaching students malware.
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Stealing ATM PINs with a Thermal Camera
It's easy: Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal ATM PIN pads to test how effective they were at stealing PIN numbers...
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Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sensor
Clever: "When the user types on the soft keyboard on her smartphone (especially when she holds her phone by hand rather than placing it on a fixed surface), the...
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