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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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Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode
Remember the San Bernadino killer's iPhone, and how the FBI maintained that they couldn't get the encryption key without Apple providing them with a universal back...
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Organizational Doxing and Disinformation
In the past few years, the devastating effects of hackers breaking into an organization's network, stealing confidential data, and publishing everything have been...
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Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely...
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Leaked Stingray Manuals
The Intercept has published the manuals for Harris Corporation's IMSI catcher: Stingray. It's an impressive surveillance device....
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USB Kill Stick
It costs less than $60. For just a few bucks, you can pick up a USB stick that destroys almost anything that it's plugged into. Laptops, PCs, televisions, photo...
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Malware Infects Network Hard Drives
The malware "Mal/Miner-C" infects Internet-exposed Seagate Central Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and from there takes over connected computers to mine...
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Friday Squid Blogging: More Research Inspired by Squid Skin
Research on color-changing materials: What do squid and jellyfish skin have in common with human skin? All three have inspired a team of chemists to create materials...
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Leaked Product Demo from RCS Labs
We have leak from yet another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: the Italian company RCS Labs. Vice Motherboard reports on a surveillance video demo: The video shows...
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DDOS for Profit
Brian Krebs reports that the Israeli DDOS service vDOS has earned $600K in the past two years. The information was obtained from a hack and data dump of the company's...
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Apple's Cloud Key Vault
Ever since Ian Kristi, Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, presented the company's key backup technology at Black Hat 2016, people have been...
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Talk by the Former Head of French SIGINT
For former head of French SIGINT gave a talk (removed from YouTube where he talked about a lot of things he probably shouldn't have. If anyone has 1) a transcript...
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Internet Disinformation Service for Hire
Yet another leaked catalog of Internet attack services, this one specializing in disinformation: But Aglaya had much more to offer, according to its brochure. For...
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Spy Equipment from Cobham
The Intercept has published a 120-page catalog of spy gear from the British defense company Cobham. This is equipment available to police forces. The catalog was...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Korean Spicy Grilled Squid
Easy recipe. You can get the red pepper flakes and red pepper paste at most grocery stores. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Cybercrime as a Tax on the Internet Economy
I was reading this 2014 McAfee report on the economic impact of cybercrime, and came across this interesting quote on how security is a tax on the Internet economy...
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NSO Group
We're starting to see some information on the Israeli cyber-weapons arms manufacturer that sold the iPhone zero-day exploit to the United Arab Emirates so they...
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Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape
Another paper on using Wi-Fi for surveillance. This one is on identifying people by their body shape. "FreeSense:Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals":...
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Keystroke Recognition from Wi-Fi Distortion
This is interesting research: "Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals." Basically, the user's hand positions as they type distorts the Wi-Fi signal in predictable...
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iPhone Zero-Day Used by UAE Government
Last week, Apple issued a critical security patch for the iPhone: iOS 9.3.5. The incredible story is that this patch is the result of investigative work by Citizen...
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