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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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Impressive Social Engineering Display
In this impressive lc7scxvKQOo">social-engineering display, a hacker convinces a cell phone tech-support person to change an account password without being verified...
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My Priorities for the Next Four Years
Like many, I was surprised and shocked by the election of Donald Trump as president. I believe his ideas, temperament, and inexperience represent a grave threat...
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Let's Encrypt Is Making Web Encryption Easier
That's the conclusion of a research paper: Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting providers to issue and deploy certificates for their...
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Hiding Information in Silver and Carbon Ink
Interesting: "We used silver and carbon ink to print an image consisting of small rods that are about a millimeter long and a couple of hundred microns wide," said...
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Ransomware Meets Multi-level Marketing
A new ransomware, Popcorn Time, gives users the option of infecting others in lieu of paying the ransom. Related: a good general article on ransomware....
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Cybersecurity Fantasy Role-Playing Game
It's called Cryptomancer. Think computer hacking plus magic. I know nothing about it, but it feels reminiscent of Shadowrun. Reddit thread. RPG.net thread....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Electronic Screens Inspired by Squid
Squid-inspired electronic screens. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
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Enigma Machine Sold for Almost Half a Million Dollars
A fully functional four-rotor Enigma machine sold for $463,500. Wow....
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New NSA Stories
Le Monde and the Intercept are reporting about NSA spying in Africa, and NSA spying on in-flight mobile phone calls -- both from the Snowden documents....
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WWW Malware Hides in Images
There's new malware toolkit that uses stegaography to hide in images: For the past two months, a new exploit kit has been serving malicious code hidden in the pixels...
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International Phone Fraud Tactics
This article outlines two different types of international phone fraud. The first can happen when you call an expensive country like Cuba: My phone call never actually...
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Voynich Manuscript Facsimile Published
Yale University Press has published a facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript is also available online....
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Guessing Credit Card Security Details
Researchers have found that they can guess various credit-card-number security details by spreading their guesses around multiple websites so as not to trigger...
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A 50-Foot Squid Has Not been Found in New Zealand
A 50-foot squid has not been found in New Zealand. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
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Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking
Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The...
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Analyzing WeChat
Citizen Lab has analyzed how censorship works in the Chinese chat app WeChat: Key Findings: Keyword filtering on WeChat is only enabled for users with accounts...
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DigiTally
Ross Anderson describes DigiTally, a secure payments system for use in areas where there is little or no network connectivity....
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You, Too, Can Rent the Murai Botnet
You can rent a 400,000-computer Murai botnet and DDoS anyone you like. BoingBoing post. Slashdot thread....
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San Francisco Transit System Target of Ransomware
It's really bad. The ticket machines were hacked. Over the next couple of years, I believe we are going to see the downside of our headlong rush to put everything...
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