Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From Schneier on Security
AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
This wasn't a small operation: A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently...
From Schneier on Security
Brazilian Cell Phone Hack
I know there's a lot of politics associated with this story, but concentrate on the cybersecurity aspect for a moment. The cell phones of a thousand Brazilians,...
From Schneier on Security
Phone Farming for Ad Fraud
Interesting article on people using banks of smartphones to commit ad fraud for profit. No one knows how prevalent ad fraud is on the Internet. I believe it is...
From Schneier on Security
Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
Siena Anstis, Ronald J. Deibert, John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid Video
Really neat. 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...
From Schneier on Security
More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans...
From Schneier on Security
Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers
There's a really interesting video of protesters in Hong Kong using some sort of laser to disable security cameras. I know nothing more about the technologies involved...
From Schneier on Security
How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual...
From Schneier on Security
Another Attack Against Driverless Cars
In this piece of research, attackers successfully attack a driverless car system -- Renault Captur's "Level 0" autopilot (Level 0 systems advise human drivers but...
From Schneier on Security
ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal
Back in January, two senior GCHQ officials proposed a specific backdoor for communications systems. It was universally derided as unworkable -- by me, as well....
From Schneier on Security
Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery
Eli Sugarman of the Hewlettt Foundation laments about the sorry state of cybersecurity imagery: The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid in Mexico is Getting Smaller
The Humbolt squid are getting smaller: Rawley and the other researchers found a flurry of factors that drove the jumbo squid's demise. The Gulf of California historically...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Logic Bombs
Add to the "not very smart criminals" file: According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens' Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten...
From Schneier on Security
Software Developers and Security
According to a survey: "68% of the security professionals surveyed believe it's a programmer's job to write secure code, but they also think less than half of developers...
From Schneier on Security
Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New...
From Schneier on Security
Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats
The French army is going to put together a team of science fiction writers to help imagine future threats. Leaving aside the question of whether science fiction...
From Schneier on Security
Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009...
From Schneier on Security