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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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The Effects of the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities
On January 3, the world learned about a series of major security vulnerabilities in modern microprocessors. Called Spectre and Meltdown, these vulnerabilities were...
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WhatsApp Vulnerability
A new vulnerability in WhatsApp has been discovered: ...the researchers unearthed far more significant gaps in WhatsApp's security: They say that anyone who controls...
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Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis
This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that...
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New Malware Hijacks Cryptocurrency Mining
This is a clever attack. After gaining control of the coin-mining software, the malware replaces the wallet address the computer owner uses to collect newly minted...
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Skygofree: New Government Malware for Android
Kaspersky Labs is reporting on a new piece of sophisticated malware: We observed many web landing pages that mimic the sites of mobile operators and which are used...
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Dark Caracal: Global Espionage Malware from Lebanon
The EFF and Lookout are reporting on a new piece of spyware operating out of Lebanon. It primarily targets mobile devices compromised by fake secure messaging clients...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Colossal Squid Exhibition Is Being Renovated
The New Zealand home of the colossal squid exhibit is behind renovated. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price
Interesting research: "Long-term market implications of data breaches, not," by Russell Lange and Eric W. Burger. Abstract: This report assesses the impact disclosure...
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Article from a Former Chinese PLA General on Cyber Sovereignty
Interesting article by Major General Hao Yeli, Chinese People's Liberation Army (ret.), a senior advisor at the China International Institute for Strategic Society...
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Jim Risen Writes about Reporting Government Secrets
Jim Risen writes a long and interesting article about his battles with the US government and the New York Times to report government secrets....
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Fighting Ransomware
No More Ransom is a central repository of keys and applications for ransomware, so people can recover their data without paying. It's not complete, of course, but...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese "Dude Food" Includes Squid
This seems to be a trend. 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...
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Fingerprinting Digital Documents
In this era of electronic leakers, remember that zero-width spaces and homoglyph substitution can fingerprint individual instances of files....
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Yet Another FBI Proposal for Insecure Communications
Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein has given talks where he proposes that tech companies decrease their communications and device security for the benefit of the...
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Susan Landau's New Book: Listening In
Susan Landau has written a terrific book on cybersecurity threats and why we need strong crypto. Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age. It's based in part...
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Cybersecurity and the 2017 US National Security Strategy
Commentaries on the 2017 US national security strategy by Michael Sulmeyer and Ben Buchanan....
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