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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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Is WhatsApp Hacked?
Forbes is reporting that the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer Wintego has a man-in-the-middle exploit against WhatsApp. It's a weird story. I'm not sure how...
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US and China in Cyberspace
This article on US/China cooperation and competition in cyberspace is an interesting lens through which to examine security policy....
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The Culture of Cybersecurity
Interesting survey of the cybersecurity culture in Norway. 96% of all Norwegian are online, more than 90% embrace new technology, and 6 of 10 feel capable of judging...
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Security Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User
Every few years, a researcher replicates a security study by littering USB sticks around an organization's grounds and waiting to see how many people pick them...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cannibal Squid
The Gonatus squid eats its own kind. 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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The Hacking of Yahoo
Last week, Yahoo! announced that it was hacked pretty massively in 2014. Over half a billion usernames and passwords were affected, making this the largest data...
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The Cost of Cyberattacks Is Less than You Might Think
Interesting research from Sasha Romanosky at RAND: Abstract: In 2013, the US President signed an executive order designed to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure...
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Malware Tries to Detect Test Environment
A new malware tries to detect if it's running in a virtual machine or sandboxed test environment by looking for signs of normal use and not executing if they're...
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Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces
Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they're blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate...
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Brian Krebs DDoS
Brian Krebs writes about the massive DDoS attack against his site. In fact, the site is down as I post this....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Space Kraken
A Lego model of a giant space kraken destroying a Destroyer from Star Wars. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Amtrak Security Awareness
I like this Amtrak security awareness campaign. Especially the use of my term "security theater."...
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Tesla Model S Hack
Impressive remote ,a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3121999/security/researchers-demonstrate-remote-attack-against-tesla-model-s.html">hack of the Tesla Model...
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Two Good Essays on the NSA's "Upstream" Data Collection under Section 702
Both are worth reading....
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More on the Equities Debate
This is an interesting back-and-forth: initial post by Dave Aitel and Matt Tait, a reply by Mailyn Filder, a short reply by Aitel, and a reply to the reply by Filder...
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Periscope ATM Skimmers
"Periscope skimmers" are the most sophisticated kind of ATM skimmers. They are entirely inside the ATM, meaning they're impossible to notice. They're been found...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid on Japanese Television
I got this video from PZ Myers's blog. I know absolutely nothing about it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Hacking Bridge-Hand Generation Software
Interesting: Roughly three weeks later, there is a operation program available to crack ACBL hand records. Given three consecutive boards, all the remaining boards...
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