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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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Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware
A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs...
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Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in — say — Ohio...
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Ransomware Is Getting Ugly
Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of this ransomware...
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New US Executive Order on Cybersecurity
President Biden signed an executive order to improve government cybersecurity, setting new security standards for software sold to the federal government. For the...
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Book Sale: Beyond Fear
I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your book will have a “BT...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m keynoting the (all-virtual) RSA Conference 2021, May 17-20, 2021. I’m keynoting the 5th International...
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AI Security Risk Assessment Tool
Microsoft researchers just released an open-source automation tool for security testing AI systems: “Counterfit.” Details on their blog.
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Ransomware Shuts Down US Pipeline
This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of...
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Newly Unclassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “New Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography...
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Teaching Cybersecurity to Children
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Far Side Squid Comic
A classic. 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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Friday Squid Blogging: COVID Relief Funds
A town in Japan built a giant squid statue with its COVID relief grant. One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective in...
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The Story of Colossus
Nice video of a talk by Chris Shore on the history of Colossus.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Picking up Squid on the Beach
Make sure they’re dead. 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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Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Cameras for Observing Squid
Interesting research paper. 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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New Spectre-Like Attacks
There’s new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically...
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Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone
This is an impressive hack: Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click...
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Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so...
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Serious MacOS Vulnerability Patched
Apple just patched a MacOS vulnerability that bypassed malware checks. The flaw is akin to a front entrance that’s barred and bolted effectively, but with a cat...
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