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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 Side-Channel Attack on PC Encryption
New paper: "Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs," by Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer. They recover keys acoustically...
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Hijacking the PC Update Process
There's a new report on security vulnerabilities in the PC initialization/update process, allowing someone to hijack it to install malware: One of the major things...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mechanical Squid
It's beautiful, from the Maker Faire Bay Area 2016....
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2016)
Earlier this week, I was at the ninth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted at Harvard University. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying...
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Stuxnet-Like Malware Discovered
There's a new piece of malware called Irongate, which is obviously inspired by Stuxnet. We don't know who is responsible for it. Slashdot thread....
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Stealth Falcon: New Malware from (Probably) the UAE
Citizen Lab has the details: This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon....
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The Fallibility of DNA Evidence
This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William...
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Arresting People for Walking Away from Airport Security
A proposed law in Albany, NY, would make it a crime to walk away from airport screening. Aside from wondering why county lawmakers are getting involved with what...
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Identifying People from their Driving Patterns
People can be identified from their "driver fingerprint": ...a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California at San Diego...
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Friday Squid Blogging: More Squids
This research paper shows that the number of squids, and the number of cephalopods in general, has been steadily increasing over the past 60 years: Our analyses...
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The Unfalsifiability of Security Claims
Interesting research paper: Cormac Herley, "Unfalsifiability of security claims: There is an inherent asymmetry in computer security: things can be declared insecure...
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Suckfly
Suckfly seems to be another Chinese nation-state espionage tool, first stealing South Korean certificates and now attacking Indian networks. Symantec has done a...
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Companies Not Saving Your Data
There's a new trend in Silicon Valley startups; companies are not collecting and saving data on their customers: In Silicon Valley, there's a new emphasis on putting...
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Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones from Flying Over Your Property?
Good debate in the Wall Street Journal. This isn't an obvious one; there are good arguments on both sides....
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GCHQ Discloses Two OS X Vulnerabilities to Apple
This is good news: Communications and Electronics Security Group (CESG), the information security arm of GCHQ, was credited with the discovery of two vulnerabilities...
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Google Moving Forward on Automatic Logins
Google is trying to bring this to Android developers by the end of the year: Today, secure logins -- like those used by banks or in the enterprise environment -...
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State of Online Tracking
Really interesting research: "Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis," by Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan: Abstract: We present the largest...
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