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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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Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows Backdoor
In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Not Killing New Zealand Sea Lions
Experts are blaming bacteria, not squid nets....
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Cyberattacks via Submarine
Some minimal information about the NSA's abilities to hack networks via submarine....
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Hacking Electronic Safes
Nice attack against electronic safes: Plore used side-channel attacks to pull it off. These are ways of exploiting physical indicators from a cryptographic system...
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Hacking Your Computer Monitor
Here's an interesting hack against a computer's monitor: A group of researchers has found a way to hack directly into the tiny computer that controls your monitor...
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Hackers Stealing Cars
We're seeing car thefts in the wild accomplished through hacking: Houston police have arrested two men for a string of high-tech thefts of trucks and SUVs in the...
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Scott Atran on Why People Become Terrorists
Scott Atran has done some really interesting research on why ordinary people become terrorists. Academics who study warfare and terrorism typically don't conduct...
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Hacking the Internet of Things: Locks and Thermostats
At Defcon last weekend, researchers demonstrated hacks against Bluetooth door locks and Internet-enabled thermostats....
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Malware from Kazakhstan
EFF has the story of malware from the Kazakhstan government against "journalists and political activists critical of Kazakhstan's authoritarian government, along...
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GPS Spoofing
It's easy to spoof GPS signals, and hard to defend against....
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How the Iranian Government Hacks Dissidents
Citizen Lab has a new report on an Iranian government hacking program that targets dissidents. From a Washington Post op-ed by Ron Deibert: Al-Ameer is a net savvy...
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More on Voting Machine Security
Good article. And I was interviews on WGBH on the topic....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Soda
You can order a cocktail made with squid ink soda at Hank's Oyster Bar in Washington, DC....
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Reddit "Ask Me Anything"
I did an AMA on Reddit a few days ago. My Reddit AMA from 2013....
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Hacking Trucks
Another hijack attack against vehicles, this time trucks and buses....
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Frequent Password Changes is a Bad Security Idea
I've been saying for years that it's bad security advice, that it encourages poor passwords. Lorrie Cranor, now the FTC's chief technologist, agrees: By studying...
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More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
The Open Technology Institute of the New America Foundation has released a policy paper on the vulnerabilities equities process: "Bugs in the System: A Primer on...
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NIST is No Longer Recommending Two-Factor Authentication Using SMS
NIST is no longer recommending two-factor authentication systems that use SMS, because of their many insecurities. In the latest draft of its Digital Authentication...
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New Presidential Directive on Incident Response
Last week, President Obama issued a policy directive (PPD-41) on cyber-incident response coordination. The FBI is in charge, which is no surprise. Actually, there's...
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