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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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The excellent Montreal chef Marc-Olivier Frappier, of Joe Beef fame, has created a squid and chips dish for Brit & Chips restaurant. As usual, you can also use...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 26, 2017 at 05:12 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 26, 2017 at 01:50 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 25, 2017 at 03:30 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 25, 2017 at 07:15 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 24, 2017 at 07:44 AM
According to court documents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Stingray cell-site simulators to track illegal immigrants....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 23, 2017 at 03:19 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 23, 2017 at 06:55 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 22, 2017 at 03:10 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 22, 2017 at 07:06 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 19, 2017 at 05:12 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 19, 2017 at 03:05 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 19, 2017 at 07:10 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 18, 2017 at 06:48 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 17, 2017 at 03:45 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 17, 2017 at 07:32 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 16, 2017 at 10:32 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 16, 2017 at 07:40 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 16, 2017 at 07:08 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 15, 2017 at 03:21 PM