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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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Hacking the Galaxy S8's Iris Biometric
It was easy: The hackers took a medium range photo of their subject with a digital camera's night mode, and printed the infrared image. Then, presumably to give...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2017)
I'm in Cambridge University, at the tenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the...
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Ransomware and the Internet of Things
As devastating as the latest widespread ransomware attacks have been, it's a problem with a solution. If your copy of Windows is relatively current and you've kept...
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Hacking Fingerprint Readers with Master Prints
There's interesting research on using a set of "master" digital fingerprints to fool biometric readers. The work is theoretical at the moment, but they might be...
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ICE is Using Stingray to Track Illegal Immigrants
According to court documents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Stingray cell-site simulators to track illegal immigrants....
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The Future of Ransomware
Ransomware isn't new, but it's increasingly popular and profitable. The concept is simple: Your computer gets infected with a virus that encrypts your files until...
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North Korean Cyberwar Capabilities
Reuters has an article on North Korea's cyberwar capabilities, specifically "Unit 180." They're still not in the same league as the US, UK, Russia, China, and Israel...
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Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban
The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland
It's rare: Fishermen caught a 19-foot-long giant squid off the coast of Ireland on Monday, only the fifth to be seen there since 1673. Also the first in 22 years...
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NSA Abandons "About" Searches
Earlier this month, the NSA said that it would no longer conduct "about" searches of bulk communications data. This was the practice of collecting the communications...
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WannaCry Ransomware
Criminals go where the money is, and cybercriminals are no exception. And right now, the money is in ransomware. ' It's a simple scam. Encrypt the victim's hard...
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Human Rights Watch Needs an Information Security Director
I'm sure it pays less than the industry average, and the stakes are much higher than the average. But if you want to be a Director of Information Security that...
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The US Senate Is Using Signal
The US Senate just approved Signal for staff use. Signal is a secure messaging app with no backdoor, and no large corporate owner who can be pressured to install...
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Keylogger Found in HP Laptop Audio Drivers
This is a weird story: researchers have discovered that an audio driver installed in some HP laptops includes a keylogger, which records all keystrokes to a local...
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Did North Korea Write WannaCry?
The New York Times is reporting that evidence is pointing to North Korea as the author of the WannaCry ransomware. Note that there is no proof at this time, although...
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NSA Brute-Force Keysearch Machine
The Intercept published a story about a dedicated NSA brute-force keysearch machine being built with the help of New York University and IBM. It's based on a document...
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Using Wi-Fi to Get 3D Images of Surrounding Location
Interesting research: The radio signals emitted by a commercial Wi-Fi router can act as a kind of radar, providing images of the transmitter's environment, according...
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The Quick vs. the Strong: Commentary on Cory Doctorow's Walkaway
Technological advances change the world. That's partly because of what they are, but even more because of the social changes they enable. New technologies upend...
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Yacht Security
Turns out, multi-million dollar yachts are no more secure than anything else out there: The ease with which ocean-going oligarchs or other billionaires can be hijacked...
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