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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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Jumping Airgaps with a Laser and a Scanner
Researchers have configured two computers to talk to each other using a laser and a scanner. Scanners work by detecting reflected light on their glass pane. The...
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Stealing Browsing History Using Your Phone's Ambient Light Sensor
There has been a flurry of research into using the various sensors on your phone to steal data in surprising ways. Here's another: using the phone's ambient light...
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Reading Analytics and Privacy
Interesting paper: "The rise of reading analytics and the emerging calculus of reading privacy in the digital world," by Clifford Lynch: Abstract: This paper studies...
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Analyzing Cyber Insurance Policies
There's a really interesting new paper analyzing over 100 different cyber insurance policies. From the abstract: In this research paper, we seek to answer fundamental...
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Advances in Ad Blocking
Ad blockers represent the largest consumer boycott in human history. They're also an arms race between the blockers and the blocker blockers. This article discusses...
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Faking Domain Names with Unicode Characters
It's things like this that make phishing attacks easier. News article....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Squid Attacking Another Squid
Wow, is this cool. 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 DEA Is Buying Cyberweapons from Hacking Team
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has purchased zero-day exploits from the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team. BoingBoing post....
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Smart TV Hack via the Broadcast Signal
This is impressive: The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to...
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Covert Channel via Two VMs
Researchers build a covert channel between two virtual machines using a shared cache....
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Surveillance and our Insecure Infrastructure
Since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent of the NSA's global surveillance network, there has been a vigorous debate in the technological community...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Chilean Squid Producer Diversifies
In another symptom of climate change, Chile's largest squid producer "plans to diversify its offering in the future, selling sea urchin, cod and octopus, to compensate...
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New C++ Secure Coding Standard
Carnegie Mellon University has released a comprehensive list of C++ secure-coding best practices....
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2017 Security Protocols Workshop
Ross Anderson liveblogged the presentations....
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Attack vs. Defense in Nation-State Cyber Operations
I regularly say that, on the Internet, attack is easier than defense. There are a bunch of reasons for this, but primarily it's 1) the complexity of modern networked...
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Research on Tech-Support Scams
Interesting paper: "Dial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams": Abstract: In technical support scams, cybercriminals attempt to convince...
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New Destructive Malware Bricks IoT Devices
There's a new malware called BrickerBot that permanently disables vulnerable IoT devices by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters...
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Fourth WikiLeaks CIA Attack Tool Dump
WikiLeaks is obviously playing their Top Secret CIA data cache for as much press as they can, leaking the documents a little at a time. On Friday they published...
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