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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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Face Recognition by Thermal Imaging
New research can identify a person by reading their thermal signature in complete darkness and then matching it with ordinary photographs. Research paper: Abstract...
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Shooting Down Drones
A Kentucky man shot down a drone that was hovering in his backyard: "It was just right there," he told Ars. "It was hovering, I would never have shot it if it was...
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Vulnerabilities in Brink's Smart Safe
Brink's sells an Internet-enabled smart safe called the CompuSafe Galileo. Despite being sold as a more secure safe, it's wildly insecure: Vulnerabilities found...
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Help with Mailing List Hosting
I could use some help finding a host for my monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram. My old setup just wasn't reliable enough. I had a move planned, but that fell through...
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John Mueller on the Overblown ISIS Threat
John Mueller has a good essay on how the ISIS threat is overblown....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Russian Sailors Video Colossal Squid
It tried to steal their catch. 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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Schneier Speaking Schedule
I'm speaking at an Infoedge event at Bali Hai Golf Club in Las Vegas, at 5 PM on August 5, 2015. I'm speaking at DefCon 23 on Friday, August 7, 2015. I'm speaking...
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HAMMERTOSS: New Russian Malware
Fireeye has a detailed report of a sophisticated piece of Russian malware: HAMMERTOSS. It uses some clever techniques to hide: The Hammertoss backdoor malware looks...
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Back Doors Won't Solve Comey's Going Dark Problem
At the Aspen Security Forum two weeks ago, James Comey (and others) explicitly talked about the "going dark" problem, describing the specific scenario they are...
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Comparing the Security Practices of Experts and Non-Experts
New paper: "'...no one can hack my mind': Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices," by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo. Abstract: The state...
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The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11
It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This...
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Fugitive Located by Spotify
The latest in identification by data: Webber said a tipster had spotted recent activity from Nunn on the Spotify streaming service and alerted law enforcement....
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Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
This is a story of a very high-tech kidnapping: FBI court filings unsealed last week showed how Denise Huskins' kidnappers used anonymous remailers, image sharing...
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New RC4 Attack
New research: "All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS," by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens: Abstract: We present new biases in RC4, break...
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Stagefright Vulnerability in Android Phones
The Stagefright vulnerability for Android phones is a bad one. It's exploitable via a text message (details depend on auto downloading of the particular phone),...
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Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
This is an interesting article that looks at Hacking Team's purchasing of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities from a variety of sources: Hacking Team's relationships...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How a Squid Changes Color
The California market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens, can manipulate its color in a variety of ways: Reflectins are aptly-named proteins unique to the light-sensing...
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How an Amazon Worker Stole iPads
A worker in Amazon's packaging department figured out how to deliver electronics to himself: Since he was employed with the packaging department, he had easy access...
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