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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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US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents...
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Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels: As many as 25 private companies...
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Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
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Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers. Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the...
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Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (online) at Western Washington University on January 20, 2021. Details to come. I...
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Authentication Failure
This is a weird story of a building owner commissioning an artist to paint a mural on the side of his building — except that he wasn’t actually the building’s owner...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Identified Ichthyosaur Species Probably Ate Squid
This is a deep-diving species that “fed on small prey items such as squid.” Academic paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Cybersecurity Group — I’m a member — has released its cybersecurity policy agenda for the next four years. The next administration and...
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Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
The Finnish psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo was the victim of a data breach and theft. The criminals tried extorting money from the clinic. When that failed, they...
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FireEye Hacked
FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”: During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted...
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Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
This new protocol, called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH), hides the websites you visit from your ISP. Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around...
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The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
The workshop on Economics and Information Security is always an interesting conference. This year, it will be online. Here’s the program. Registration is free.
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Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
Clever tactic: This new malware was discovered by researchers at Dutch cyber-security company Sansec that focuses on defending e-commerce websites from digital...
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Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
Neat story: German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during...
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Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software: First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws...
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Impressive iPhone Exploit
This is a scarily impressive vulnerability: Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bugbuffer...
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Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
Many systems are vulnerable: Researchers at the time said that they were able to launch inaudible commands by shining lasers — from as far as 360 feet — at the...
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Check Washing
I can’t believe that check washing is still a thing: “Check washing” is a practice where thieves break into mailboxes (or otherwise steal mail), find envelopes...
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