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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 …
From Schneier on Security
What Can you Learn from Metadata?
An Australian reporter for the ABC, Will Ockenden published a bunch of his metadata, and asked people to derive various elements of his life. They did pretty well...
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Using Samsung's Internet-Enabled Refrigerator for Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
This is interesting research:: Whilst the fridge implements SSL, it FAILS to validate SSL certificates, thereby enabling man-in-the-middle attacks against most...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Anatomy Class
Beautiful diorama. 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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Mickens on Security
James Mickens, for your amusement. A somewhat random sample: My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The "threat model" section...
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The Benefits of Endpoint Encryption
An unofficial blog post from FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani on the virtues of strong end-user device controls....
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German BfV - NSA Cooperation
The German newspaper Zeit is reporting the BfV, Germany's national intelligence agency, (probably) illegally traded data about Germans to the NSA in exchange for...
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Iranian Phishing
CitizenLab is reporting on Iranian hacking attempts against activists, which include a real-time man-in-the-middle attack against Google's two-factor authentication...
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Defending All the Targets Is Impossible
In the wake of the recent averted mass shooting on the French railroads, officials are realizing that there are just too many potential targets to defend. The sheer...
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Regularities in Android Lock Patterns
Interesting: Marte Løge, a 2015 graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, recently collected and analyzed almost 4,000 ALPs as part of her...
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Movie Plot Threat: Terrorists Attacking US Prisons
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts wins an award for his movie-plot threat: terrorists attacking the maximum-security federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth: In an Aug. 14 letter...
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Are Data Breaches Getting Larger?
This research says that data breaches are not getting larger over time. "Hype and Heavy Tails: A Closer Look at Data Breaches," by Benjamin Edwards, Steven Hofmeyr...
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The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking
Here's an interesting research paper that tries to calculate the differential value of privacy-invasive advertising practices. The researchers used data from a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari Ripieni Recipe
Nice and easy Calamari Ripieni recipe, along with general instructions on cooking squid: Tenderizing squid is as simple as pounding it flat -- if you're going to...
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NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World
Quantum computing is a novel way to build computers -- one that takes advantage of the quantum properties of particles to perform operations on data in a very different...
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SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance
Interesting: Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world? It's...
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No-Fly List Uses Predictive Assessments
The US government has admitted that it uses predictive assessments to put people on the no-fly list: In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge,...
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Nasty Cisco Attack
This is serious: Cisco Systems officials are warning customers of a series of attacks that completely hijack critical networking gear by swapping out the valid...
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