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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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How Browsers Store Passwords
Good information on how Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox store user passwords....
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Hacking Attack Causes Physical Damage at German Steel Mill
This sort of thing is still very rare, but I fear it will become more common: ...hackers had struck an unnamed steel mill in Germany. They did so by manipulating...
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Attack Attribution in Cyberspace
When you're attacked by a missile, you can follow its trajectory back to where it was launched from. When you're attacked in cyberspace, figuring out who did it...
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Attributing the Sony Attack
No one has admitted taking down North Korea's Internet. It could have been an act of retaliation by the US government, but it could just as well have been an ordinary...
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Fidgeting as Lie Detection
Sophie Van Der Zee and colleagues have a new paper on using body movement as a lie detector: Abstract: We present a new robust signal for detecting deception: full...
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Attributing Cyberattacks
New paper: "Attributing Cyber Attacks," by Thomas Rid and Ben Buchanan: Abstract: Who did it? Attribution is fundamental. Human lives and the security of the state...
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Loitering as a Security System
In Kyoto, taxi drivers are encouraged to loiter around convenience stores late at night. Their presence reduces crime. In Kyoto about half of the convenience stores...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Easy Squid Recipes
Stewed squid with tomatoes, sauteed squid with parsley and garlic, and braised squid with garlic and herbs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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Doxing as an Attack
Those of you unfamiliar with hacker culture might need an explanation of "doxing." The word refers to the practice of publishing personal information about people...
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More Data on Attributing the Sony Attack
An analysis of the timestamps on some of the leaked documents shows that they were downloaded at USB 2.0 speeds -- which implies an insider. Our Gotnews.com investigation...
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Leaked CIA Documents
I haven't seen much press mention about the leaked CIA documents that have appeared on Wikileaks this month. There are three: The CIA review of high-value target...
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New Documents on NSA's Crypanalysis Capabilities
Spiegel published a long article today on the NSA's analysis capabilities against encrypted systems, with a lot of new documents from the Snowden archive. I'm not...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Mummers Play Featuring Giant Squid
"St. George, the Dragon, and the Squid: A Preservation Mumming," by the American Folklife Center. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Merry Christmas from the NSA
On Christmas eve the NSA relesed a bunch of audit reports on illegal spying using EO 12333 from 2001 to 2013. Bloomberg article. The heavily-redacted reports include...
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"Santa Claus and the Surveillance State"
He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He's everywhere. And that's the whole point of the Elf on the Shelf, the bright-eyed, Kewpie-esque...
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Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
I am deeply skeptical of the FBI's announcement on Friday that North Korea was behind last month's Sony hack. The agency's evidence is tenuous, and I have a hard...
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Manipulating Juries with PowerPoint
Interesting article on the subconscious visual tricks used to manipulate juries and affect verdicts. In December 2012 the Washington Supreme Court threw out Glasmann's...
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North Korea DDoSed Off the Internet
North Korea has been knocked off the Internet by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Maybe the US did it, and maybe not. This whole incident is a perfect...
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2008 Cyberattack Against Turkish Oil Pipeline
Interesting article talks about the 2008 cyberattack against a Turkish oil pipeline: For western intelligence agencies, the blowout was a watershed event. Hackers...
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