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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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Mailing Tech Support a Bomb
I understand his frustration, but this is extreme: When police asked Cryptopay what could have motivated Salonen to send the company a pipe bomb or, rather, two...
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Hidden Cameras in Streetlights
Both the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights. According to government...
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Chip Cards Fail to Reduce Credit Card Fraud in the US
A new study finds that credit card fraud has not declined since the introduction of chip cards in the US. The majority of stolen card information comes from hacked...
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More Spectre/Meltdown-Like Attacks
Back in January, we learned about a class of vulnerabilities against microprocessors that leverages various performance and efficiency shortcuts for attack. I wrote...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Kiwicon in Wellington, New Zealand on November 16, 2018. I'm appearing on IBM...
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Oracle and "Responsible Disclosure"
I've been writing about "responsible disclosure" for over a decade; here's an essay from 2007. Basically, it's a tacit agreement between researchers and software...
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New IoT Security Regulations
Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances -- to the internet at...
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Hiding Secret Messages in Fingerprints
This is a fun steganographic application: hiding a message in a fingerprint image. Can't see any real use for it, but that's okay....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Australian Fisherman Gets Inked
Pretty good video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
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The Pentagon is Publishing Foreign Nation-State Malware
This is a new thing: The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially...
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Privacy and Security of Data at Universities
Interesting paper: "Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier," by Christine Borgman: Abstract: As universities recognize the...
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iOS 12.1 Vulnerability
This is really just to point out that computer security is really hard: Almost as soon as Apple released iOS 12.1 on Tuesday, a Spanish security researcher discovered...
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Consumer Reports Reviews Wireless Home-Security Cameras
Consumer Reports is starting to evaluate the security of IoT devices. As part of that, it's reviewing wireless home-security cameras. It found significant security...
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Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption
Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk...
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Troy Hunt on Passwords
Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eating More Squid
This research paper concludes that we'll be eating more squid in the future. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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How to Punish Cybercriminals
Interesting policy paper by Third Way: "To Catch a Hacker: Toward a comprehensive strategy to identify, pursue, and punish malicious cyber actors": In this paper...
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Buying Used Voting Machines on eBay
This is not surprising: This year, I bought two more machines to see if security had improved. To my dismay, I discovered that the newer model machines -- those...
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Was the Triton Malware Attack Russian in Origin?
The conventional story is that Iran targeted Saudi Arabia with Triton in 2017. New research from FireEye indicates that it might have been Russia. I don't know....
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