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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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Guessing Smart Phone PINs by Monitoring the Accelerometer
"Practicality of Accelerometer Side Channels on Smartphones," by Adam J. Aviv. Benjamin Sapp, Matt Blaze, and Jonathan M. Smith. Abstract: Modern smartphonesArticle...
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Using the iWatch for Authentication
Usability engineer Bruce Tognazzini talks about how an iWatch -- which seems to be either a mythical Apple product or one actually in development -- can make authentication...
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Anti-Cheating Security in Casinos
Long article. With over a thousand cameras operating 24/7, the monitoring room creates tremendous amounts of data every day, most of which goes unseen. Six technicians...
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Real-World Prisoner's Dilemma from France
This is a real story of a pair of identical twins who are suspected in a crime. There is there is CCTV and DNA evidence that could implicate either suspect. Detailed...
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New al Qaeda Encryption Tool
There's not a lot of information -- and quite a lot of hyperbole -- in this article: With the release of the Asrar Al Dardashah plugin, GIMF promised "secure correspondence"...
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Massive Police Shootout in Cleveland Despite Lack of Criminals
This is an amazing story. I urge you to read the whole thing, but here's the basics: A November car chase ended in a "full blown-out" firefight, with glass and...
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Our New Regimes of Trust
Society runs on trust. Over the millennia, we've developed a variety of mechanisms to induce trustworthy behavior in society. These range from a sense of guiltThis...
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Really Clever TLS Attack
This is an extremely clever man-in-the-middle timing attack against AES that exploits the interaction between how the protocol implements AES in CBC mode for encryption...
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Platform Fragmentation as a Security Issue
Interesting article about the difficulty Google has pushing security updates onto Android phones. The problem is that the phone manufacturer is in charge, and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Recipe
Chorizo-stuffed squid with potatoes, capers and sage. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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I Seem to Be a Physical Security Expert Now
This seems so obviously written by someone who Googled me on the Internet, without any other knowledge of who I am or what i do.
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Millennials and Cybersecurity
This long report looks at risky online behavior among the Millennial generation, and finds that they respond positively to automatic reminders and prodding. No...
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Inauguration Security
A first-person account of the security surrounding the second inauguration of President Obama.
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Tide Becomes Drug Currency
Basically, Tide detergent is a popular product with a very small profit margin. So small non-chain grocery and convenience stores are happy to buy it cheaply,started...
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Over $3M in Prizes to Hack Google Chrome
Google's contest at the CanSecWest conference: Today we’re announcing our third Pwnium competitionPwnium 3. Google Chrome is already featured in the Pwn2Own competition...
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Why Is Quantum Computing So Hard?
Blog post (and two papers) by Ross Anderson and Robert Brady. News article.
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New York Times Hacked by China
This was big news last week, and I spent a lot of time doing press interviews about it. But while it is an important story -- hacking a newspaper, looking forGhostNet...
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Proactive Defense Papers
I just printed this out: "Proactive Defense for Evolving Cyber Threats," a Sandia Report by Richard Colbaugh and Kristin Glass. It's a collection of academic...
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