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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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New Airport Scanning Technology
Interesting: Iscon's patented, thermo-conductive technology combines infrared (IR) and heat transfer, for high-resolution imaging without using any radiation....
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Spam as a Business
Interesting research: Kirill Levchenko, et al. (2010), "Click Trajectories -- End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy...
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25% of U.S. Criminal Hackers are Police Informants
I have no idea if this is true: In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have...
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Tennessee Makes Password Sharing Illegal
Here's a new law that won't work: State lawmakers in country music's capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's...
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Fighting Terrorism with Cupcakes
MI6 hacked into an online al-Qaeda magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a cupcake recipe. It's a more polite hack than subtly altering the recipe...
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Analysis of Redaction Failures
Redaction failures are so common that I stopped blogging about them years ago. This is the first analysis I have seen of technical redaction failures. And here's...
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World War II Tunny Cryptanalysis Machine Rebuilt at Bletchley Park
Neat: The rebuild team had only a few photographs, partial circuit diagrams and the fading memories of a few original Tunny operators to go on. Nonetheless a team...
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Open-Source Software Feels Insecure
At first glance, this seems like a particularly dumb opening line of an article: Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity...
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Spear Phishing Attacks from China Against Gmail Accounts
Reporters have been calling me pretty much constantly about this story, but I can't figure out why in the world this is news. Attacks from China -- old news; attacks...
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Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against the MCAT Exam
In Applied Cryptography, I wrote about the "Chess Grandmaster Problem," a man-in-the-middle attack. Basically, Alice plays chess remotely with two grandmasters...
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Three-Volume History of Counterintelligence
CI Reader: An American Revolution Into the New Millennium, Volumes I, II, and III is published by the U.S. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive....
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The U.S. Seems to Have a Secret Stealth Helicopter
That's what the U.S. destroyed after a malfunction in Pakistan during the Bin Laden assassination. (For helicopters, "stealth" is less concerned with radar signatures...
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Keeping Sensitive Information Out of the Hands of Terrorists Through Self-Restraint
In my latest book (available February), I talk about various mechanisms for societal security: how we as a group protect ourselves from the "dishonest minority"...
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Lockheed Martin Hack Linked to RSA's SecurID Breach
All I know is what I read in the news.
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Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers
Cyber criminals are getting aggressive with their social engineering tactics. Val Christopherson said she received a telephone call last Tuesday from a man stating...
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Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked
All I know is what's in these two blog posts from Elcomsoft. Note that they didn't break AES-256; they figured out how to extract the keys from the hardware (iPhones...
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