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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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Public-Interest Tech at the RSA Conference
Our work in cybersecurity is inexorably intertwined with public policy and -- more generally -- the public interest. It's obvious in the debates on encryption...
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Security Flaws in Children's Smart Watches
A year ago, the Norwegian Consumer Council published an excellent security analysis of children's GPS-connected smart watches. The security was terrible. Not only...
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Security Analysis of the LIFX Smart Light Bulb
The security is terrible: In a very short limited amount of time, three vulnerabilities have been discovered: Wifi credentials of the user have been recovered (stored...
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iPhone FaceTime Vulnerability
This is kind of a crazy iPhone vulnerability: it's possible to call someone on FaceTime and listen on their microphone -- and see from their camera -- before they...
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Japanese Government Will Hack Citizens' IoT Devices
The Japanese government is going to run penetration tests against all the IoT devices in their country, in an effort to (1) figure out what's insecure, and (2)...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squids on the Tree of Life
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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Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor
Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain...
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Military Carrier Pigeons in the Era of Electronic Warfare
They have advantages: Pigeons are certainly no substitute for drones, but they provide a low-visibility option to relay information. Considering the storage capacity...
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The Evolution of Darknets
This is interesting: To prevent the problems of customer binding, and losing business when darknet markets go down, merchants have begun to leave the specialized...
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Hacking Construction Cranes
Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be (easily) taken...
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Clever Smartphone Malware Concealment Technique
This is clever: Malicious apps hosted in the Google Play market are trying a clever trick to avoid detection -- they monitor the motion-sensor input of an infected...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Lollipops
Two squid lollipops, handmade by Shinri Tezuka. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
The so-called Crypto Wars have been going on for 25 years now. Basically, the FBI -- and some of their peer agencies in the U.K., Australia, and elsewhere -- argue...
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Prices for Zero-Day Exploits Are Rising
Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit...
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El Chapo's Encryption Defeated by Turning His IT Consultant
Impressive police work: In a daring move that placed his life in danger, the I.T. consultant eventually gave the F.B.I. his system's secret encryption keys in 2011...
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Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos argues that increasing political pressure on social media platforms to moderate content will give them a pretext to turn all end...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at A New Initiative for Poland in Warsaw, January 16-17, 2019. I'm speaking at the...
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Why Internet Security Is So Bad
I recently read two different essays that make the point that while Internet security is terrible, it really doesn't affect people enough to make it an issue. This...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video
This is a fantastic video of a young giant squid named Heck swimming around Toyama Bay near Tokyo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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