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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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Interview of Me in Taiwan
Business Weekly in Taiwan interviewed me. (Here's a translation courtesy of Google.) It was a surprisingly intimate interview. I hope the Chinese reads better than...
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Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain
Cyberattacks don't magically happen; they involve a series of steps. And far from being helpless, defenders can disrupt the attack at any of those steps. This framing...
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Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here's the research paper....
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Vulnerability in French Government Tchap Chat App
A researcher found a vulnerability in the French government WhatsApp replacement app: Tchap. The vulnerability allows anyone to surreptitiously join any conversation...
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G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their...
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Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 MAX Software Problems
This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read. Technically this is safety and not security; there was no attacker...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species off the New Zealand Coast
There's a new diversity of species. 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...
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Iranian Cyber-Espionage Tools Leaked Online
The source code of a set of Iranian cyber-espoinage tools was leaked online....
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New DNS Hijacking Attacks
DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker...
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A "Department of Cybersecurity"
Presidential candidate John Delaney has announced a plan to create a Department of Cybersecurity. I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with...
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More on the Triton Malware
FireEye is releasing much more information about the Triton malware that attacks critical infrastructure. It has been discovered in more places. This is also a...
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Vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Protocol
Researchers have found several vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi security protocol: The design flaws we discovered can be divided in two categories. The first category...
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China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Detecting Illegal Squid Fishing with Satellite Imagery
Interesting. 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 guidelines here...
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Maliciously Tampering with Medical Imagery
In what I am sure is only a first in many similar demonstrations, researchers are able to add or remove cancer signs from CT scans. The results easily fool radiologists...
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New Version of Flame Malware Discovered
Flame was discovered in 2012, linked to Stuxnet, and believed to be American in origin. It has recently been linked to more modern malware through new analysis...
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TajMahal Spyware
Kaspersky has released details about a sophisticated nation-state spyware it calls TajMahal: The TajMahal framework's 80 modules, Shulmin says, comprise not only...
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How the Anonymous Artist Bansky Authenticates His or Her Work
Interesting scheme: It all starts off with a fairly bog standard gallery style certificate. Details of the work, the authenticating agency, a bit of embossing and...
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Hey Secret Service: Don't Plug Suspect USB Sticks into Random Computers
I just noticed this bit from the incredibly weird story of the Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang...
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