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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 Spectre-Like CPU Vulnerability
Google and Microsoft researchers have disclosed another Spectre-like CPU side-channel vulnerability, called "Speculative Store Bypass." Like the others, the fix...
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Japan's Directorate for Signals Intelligence
The Intercept has a long article on Japan's equivalent of the NSA: the Directorate for Signals Intelligence. Interesting, but nothing really surprising. The directorate...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
Flying squid are real. 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...
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Maliciously Changing Someone's Address
Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course,...
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White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Position
The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea....
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Accessing Cell Phone Location Information
The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service...
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Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers...
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Details on a New PGP Vulnerability
A new PGP vulnerability was announced today. Basically, the vulnerability makes use of the fact that modern e-mail programs allow for embedded HTML objects. Essentially...
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Critical PGP Vulnerability
EFF is reporting that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in PGP and S/MIME. No details have been published yet, but one of the researchers wrote: We'll...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How the Squid Lost Its Shell
Squids used to have shells. 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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Airline Ticket Fraud
New research: "Leaving on a jet plane: the trade in fraudulently obtained airline tickets:" Abstract: Every day, hundreds of people fly on airline tickets that...
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Supply-Chain Security
Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their...
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Virginia Beach Police Want Encrypted Radios
This article says that the Virginia Beach police are looking to buy encrypted radios. Virginia Beach police believe encryption will prevent criminals from listening...
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The US Is Unprepared for Election-Related Hacking in 2018
This survey and report is not surprising: The survey of nearly forty Republican and Democratic campaign operatives, administered through November and December 2017...
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Ray Ozzie's Encryption Backdoor
Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. It's a weird article. It paints...
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Friday Squid Blogging: US Army Developing 3D-Printable Battlefield Robot Squid
The next major war will be super weird. 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...
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Detecting Laptop Tampering
Micah Lee ran a two-year experiment designed to detect whether or not his laptop was ever tampered with. The results are inconclusive, but demonstrate how difficult...
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LC4: Another Pen-and-Paper Cipher
Interesting symmetric cipher: LC4: Abstract: ElsieFour (LC4) is a low-tech cipher that can be computed by hand; but unlike many historical ciphers, LC4 is designed...
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NIST Issues Call for "Lightweight Cryptography" Algorithms
This is interesting: Creating these defenses is the goal of NIST's lightweight cryptography initiative, which aims to develop cryptographic algorithm standards...
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