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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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Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications...
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Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On the Efficacy of Squid as Bait
How to use squid as bait. 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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The DoD Isn't Fixing Its Security Problems
It has produced several reports outlining what's wrong and what needs to be fixed. It's not fixing them: GAO looked at three DoD-designed initiatives to see whether...
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California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic
This one isn't even related to contact tracing: On March 17, 2020, the federal government relaxed a number of telehealth-related regulatory requirements due to...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm being interviewed on "Hacking in the Public Interest" as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series...
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Ransomware Now Leaking Stolen Documents
Originally, ransomware didn't involve any data theft. Malware would encrypt the data on your computer, and demand a ransom for the encryption key. Now ransomware...
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Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app. (Details, such as we have them, are here.) It's similar...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Amazingly Realistic Squid Drawings
The squid drawings of Yuuki Tokuda are simply incredible. I tried to figure out how to buy one of them, but everything is in Japanese. As usual, you can also use...
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Kubernetes Security
Attack matrix for Kubernetes, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. A good first step towards understand the security of this suddenly popular and very complex container...
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Microsoft Buys Corp.com
A few months ago, Brian Krebs told the story of the domain corp.com, and how it is basically a security nightmare: At issue is a problem known as "namespace collision...
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RSA-250 Factored
RSA-250 has been factored. This computation was performed with the Number Field Sieve algorithm, using the open-source CADO-NFS software. The total computation...
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Cybersecurity During COVID-19
Three weeks ago (could it possibly be that long already?), I wrote about the increased risks of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. One, employees are...
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Emotat Malware Causes Physical Damage
Microsoft is reporting that an Emotat malware infection shut down a network by causing computers to overheat and then crash. The Emotet payload was delivered and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Communication
They can communicate using bioluminescent flashes: New research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents evidence for a previously...
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Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. (My own university, Harvard...
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Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used to Buy Silence
Investigative report on how commercial bug-bounty programs like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and SynAck are being used to silence researchers: Used properly, bug bounty...
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Marriott Was Hacked -- Again
Marriott announced another data breach, this one affecting 5.2 million people: At this point, we believe that the following information may have been involved,...
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Dark Web Hosting Provider Hacked
Daniel's Hosting, which hosts about 7,600 dark web portals for free, has been hacked and is down. It's unclear when, or if, it will be back up....
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