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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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Cisco IP Phone Hack
Nice work: All current Cisco IP phones, including the ones seen on desks in the White House and aboard Air Force One, have a vulnerability that allows hackers...
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"The Logic of Surveillance"
Interesting essay: Surveillance is part of the system of control. "The more surveillance, the more control" is the majority belief amongst the ruling elites....
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Dead Drop from the 1870s
Hats: De Blowitz was staying at the Kaiserhof. Each day his confederate went there for lunch and dinner. The two never acknowledged one another, but they hung...
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Is Software Security a Waste of Money?
I worry that comments about the value of software security made at the RSA Conference last week will be taken out of context. John Viega did not say that software...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid/Whale Yin-Yang
Pretty. 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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Ross Anderson's Security Engineering Online
The second edition of Ross Anderson's fantastic book, Security Engineering, is now free online. Required reading for any security engineer.
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Oxford University Blocks Google Docs
Google Docs is being used for phishing. Oxford University felt that it had to block the service because Google isn't responding to takedown requests quickly enough...
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How the FBI Intercepts Cell Phone Data
Good article on "Stingrays," which the FBI uses to monitor cell phone data. Basically, they trick the phone into joining a fake network. And, since cell phones...
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Browser Security
Interesting discussion on browser security from Communications of the ACM. Also, an article on browser and web privacy from the same issue.
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The NSA's Ragtime Surveillance Program and the Need for Leaks
A new book reveals details about the NSA's Ragtime surveillance program: A book published earlier this month, "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry...
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Al Qaeda Document on Avoiding Drone Strikes
Interesting: 3 – Spreading the reflective pieces of glass on a car or on the roof of the building. 4 – Placing a group of skilled snipers to hunt the drone, especially...
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Marketing at the RSA Conference
Marcus Ranum has an interesting screed on "booth babes" in the RSA Conference exhibition hall: I'm not making a moral argument about sexism in our industry orsame...
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Technologies of Surveillance
It's a new day for the New York Police Department, with technology increasingly informing the way cops do their jobs. With innovation comes new possibilities but...
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New Internet Porn Scam
I hadn't heard of this one before. In New Zealand, people viewing adult websites -- it's unclear whether these are honeypot sites, or malware that notices thepop...
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Getting Security Incentives Right
One of the problems with motivating proper security behavior within an organization is that the incentives are all wrong. It doesn't matter how much management...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Cartoon.
Another. 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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Phishing Has Gotten Very Good
This isn't phishing; it's not even spear phishing. It's laser-guided precision phishing: One of the leaked diplomatic cables referred to one attack via emailwrote...
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The Court of Public Opinion
Recently, Elon Musk and the New York Times took to Twitter and the Internet to argue the data -- and their grievances -- over a failed road test and car review....
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