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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 …
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Zero-Day Used by UAE Government
Last week, Apple issued a critical security patch for the iPhone: iOS 9.3.5. The incredible story is that this patch is the result of investigative work by Citizen...
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Apple Patents Collecting Biometric Information Based on Unauthorized Device Use
Apple received a patent earlier this year on collecting biometric information of an unauthorized device user. The obvious application is taking a copy of the fingerprint...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Repairing Fabrics Based on Squid Teeth
Really: As shown in the video below, researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently developed a polyelectrolyte liquid solution made of bacteria and yeast...
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Collision Attacks Against 64-Bit Block Ciphers
We've long known that 64 bits is too small for a block cipher these days. That's why new block ciphers like AES have 128-bit, or larger, block sizes. The insecurity...
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The NSA is Hoarding Vulnerabilities
The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because of data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the internet. The agency is hoarding information...
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Confusing Security Risks with Moral Judgments
Interesting research that shows we exaggerate the risks of something when we find it morally objectionable. From an article about and interview with the researchers...
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Interesting Internet-Based Investigative Techniques
In this article, detailing the Australian and then worldwide investigation of a particularly heinous child-abuse ring, there are a lot of details of the pedophile...
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Privacy Implications of Windows 10
The EFF has a good analysis of all the ways Windows 10 violates your privacy....
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Research on the Timing of Security Warnings
fMRI experiments show that we are more likely to ignore security warnings when they interrupt other tasks. A new study from BYU, in collaboration with Google Chrome...
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Terrorist False Alarm at JFK Airport Demonstrates How Unprepared We Really Are
The detailed accounts of the terrorist-shooter false-alarm at Kennedy Airport in New York last week illustrate how completely and totally unprepared the airport...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
Photo of the cutest squid ever. 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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Unintentional DOS Attack against Car-Door Openers
Radio noise from a nearby neon-sign transformer made it impossible for people to unlock their cars remotely....
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More on Election Security
Andrew Appel has a good two-part essay on securing elections. And three organizations -- Verified Voting, EPIC, and Common Cause -- have published a report on the...
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Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment Illustrates Four Basic Phenotypes
If you've read my book Liars and Outliers, you know I like the prisoner's dilemma as a way to think about trust and security. There is an enormous amount of research...
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Major NSA/Equation Group Leak
The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we're just now learning about it. A group of hackers called "The Shadow Brokers" claim to have hacked the NSA, and are posting...
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Powerful Bit-Flipping Attack
New research: "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack," by Kaveh Razavi, Ben Gras, Erik Bosman Bart Preneel, Cristiano Giuffrida, and Herbert...
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Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
Both Kaspersky and Symantec have uncovered another piece of malware that seems to be a government design: The malware -- known alternatively as "ProjectSauron"...
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Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows Backdoor
In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot...
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