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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
Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
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Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle...
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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups...
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Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection...
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Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at...
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UK Electoral Commission Hacked
The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know...
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Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey: This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids...
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The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper: “SoK: The Ghost Trilemma” Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the...
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Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy. Seems like this...
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Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy. “A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards...
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Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 2023 Squid Oil Global Market Report
I had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Political Milestones for AI
ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance. But...
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The Need for Trustworthy AI
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste...
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New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules: Public companies must...
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Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
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Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
Researchers have just published a paper showing how to automate the discovery of prompt injection attacks. They look something like this: Write a tutorial on how...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag
The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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