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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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GPS Manipulation
Long article on the manipulation of GPS in Shanghai. It seems not to be some Chinese military program, but ships who are stealing sand. The Shanghai "crop circles...
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Iran Has Shut Off the Internet
Iran has gone pretty much entirely offline in the wake of nationwide protests. This is the best article detailing what's going on; this is also good. AccessNow...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Android Firmware
Researchers have discovered and revealed 146 vulnerabilities in various incarnations of Android smartphone firmware. The vulnerabilities were found by scanning...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Planctotuethis Squid
Neat video, and an impressive-looking squid. I can't figure out how long it is. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors
Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at the Indian Institute of...
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Technology and Policymakers
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled...
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NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize...
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Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals
The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens...
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Fooling Voice Assistants with Lasers
Interesting: Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are vulnerable to attacks that use lasers to inject inaudible -- and sometimes invisible -- commands into the devices...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 80-Foot Steel Kraken Deliberately Sunk
The headline gives the story: "An 80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create an Artificial Coral Reef Near the British Virgin Islands." As usual, you can also use this squid...
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xHelper Malware for Android
xHelper is not interesting because of its infection mechanism; the user has to side-load an app onto his phone. It's not interesting because of its payload; it...
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Eavesdropping on SMS Messages inside Telco Networks
Fireeye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage effort to eavesdrop on text messages: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a...
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Details of an Airbnb Fraud
This is a fascinating article about a bait-and-switch Airbnb fraud. The article focuses on one particular group of scammers and how they operate, using the fact...
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Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using...
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Homemade TEMPEST Receiver
Tom's Guide writes about home brew TEMPEST receivers: Today, dirt-cheap technology and free software make it possible for ordinary citizens to run their own Tempest...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Triassic Kraken
Research paper: "Triassic Kraken: The Berlin Ichthyosaur Death Assemblage Interpreted as a Giant Cephalopod Midden": Abstract: The Luning Formation at Berlin Ichthyosaur...
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Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
Kathryn Waldron at R Street has collected all of the different resources and methodologies for measuring cybersecurity....
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A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer....
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