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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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Research on Patch Deployment
New research indicates that it's very hard to completely patch systems against vulnerabilities: It turns out that it may not be that easy to patch vulnerabilities...
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Spy Dust
Used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War: A defecting agent revealed that powder containing both luminol and a substance called nitrophenyl pentadien (NPPD)...
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More on Chris Roberts and Avionics Security
Last month ago I blogged aboutsecurity researcher Chris Roberts being detained by the FBI after tweeting about avionics security while on a United flight: But to...
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United Airlines Offers Frequent Flier Miles for Finding Security Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities on the website only, not in airport security or in the avionics....
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Friday Squid Blogging: NASA's Squid Rover
NASA is funding a study for a squid rover that could explore Europa's oceans. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Microbe Biometric
Interesting: Franzosa and colleagues used publicly available microbiome data produced through the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), which surveyed microbes in the...
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Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists
On April 1, I announced the Eighth Movie Plot Threat Contest: demonstrate the evils of encryption. Not a whole lot of good submissions this year. Possibly this...
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In Which I Collide with Admiral Rogers
Universe does not explode. Photo here....
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Admiral Rogers Speaking at the Joint Service Academy Cyber Security Summit
Admiral Mike Rogers gave the keynote address at the Joint Service Academy Cyber Security Summit today at West Point. He started by explaining the four tenets of...
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License Plate Scanners Hidden in Fake Cactus
The city of Paradise Valley, AZ, is hiding license plate scanners in fake cactus plants....
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German Cryptanalysis of the M-209
This 1947 document describes a German machine to cryptanalyze the American M-209 mechanical encryption machine. I can't figure out anything about how it works.....
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Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography
Anyone can design a cipher that he himself cannot break. This is why you should uniformly distrust amateur cryptography, and why you should only use published algorithms...
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More on the NSA's Capabilities
Ross Anderson summarizes a meeting in Princeton where Edward Snowden was "present." Third, the leaks give us a clear view of an intelligence analyst's workflow....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chair
Squid chair. 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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Stealing a Billion
It helps if you own the banks: The report said Shor and his associates worked together in 2012 to buy a controlling stake in three Moldovan banks and then gradually...
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Online Dating Scams
Interesting research: We identified three types of scams happening on Jiayuan. The first one involves advertising of escort services or illicit goods, and is very...
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Another Example of Cell Phone Metadata Forensic Surveillance
Matthew Cole explains how the Italian police figured out how the CIA kidnapped Abu Omar in Milan. Interesting use of cell phone metadata, showing how valuable it...
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An Example of Cell Phone Metadata Forensic Surveillance
In this long article on the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Beirut, there's a detailed section on what the investigators were able to learn from the cell...
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