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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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Amazon Replacement-Order Scam
Clever: Chris Cardinal discovered someone running such a scam on Amazon using his account: the scammer contacted Amazon pretending to be Chris, supplying his billing...
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China Now Blocking Encryption
The "Great Firewall of China" is now able to detect and block encryption: A number of companies providing "virtual private network" (VPN) services to users in...
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Information-Age Law Enforcement Techniques
This is an interesting blog post: Buried inside a recent United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report titled Use of Internet for Terrorist Purposes one canHere's...
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Nasty Samsung Phone Exploit
There's a new exploit against Samsung Galaxy phones that allows a rogue app access to all memory. A hacker could copy all of your data, erase all of your data,...
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Possible Decryption of World War II Pigeon Message
A Canadian claims that the message is based on a WWI codebook. A spokesman from GCHQ remains dubious, but says they'll be happy to look at the proposed solution...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant PVC Squid
Neat art project. Another link. 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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Book Review: Against Security
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, by Harvey Molotch, Princeton University Press, 278 pages, $35 Security...
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The History of Security Economics
Ross Anderson recalls the history of security economics (presentation and paper.)
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QR Code Scams
There's a rise in QR codes that point to fraudulent sites. One of the warning signs seems to be a sticker with the code, rather than a code embedded in an advertising...
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Detecting Edited Audio
Interesting development in forensic analysis: Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these...
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Drone Flights Over the US
The EFF has been prying data out of the government and analyzing it.
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The National Cyber Security Framework Manual
This book is available as a free pdf download: The National Cyber Security Framework Manual provides detailed background information and in-depth theoretical frameworks...
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Dictators Shutting Down the Internet
Excellent article: "How to Shut Down Internets." First, he describes what just happened in Syria. Then: Egypt turned off the internet by using the Border Gateway...
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Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
Yet another way two-factor authentication has been bypassed: For a user to fall prey to Eurograbber, he or she must first be using a computer infected with the...
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Buy Your Own ATM Skimmer for $3000
I have no idea if this is real. If I had to guess, I would say no.
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Squids on the Economist Cover
Four squids on the cover of this week's Economist represent the four massive (and intrusive) data-driven Internet giants: Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. Interestingly...
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Comedy and Cryptography
Not the sort of pairing I normally think of, but: Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, author and Enigma Machine owner Simon Singh...
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Roger Williams' Cipher Cracked
Another historical cipher, this one from the 1600s, has been cracked: Senior math major Lucas Mason-Brown, who has done the majority of the decoding, said his...
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