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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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34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published
It's hard to tell how serious this is. Computer security experts who examined the code say the vulnerabilities are not highly dangerous on their own, because they...
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Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates
This isn't good: The hacker, whose March 15 attack was traced to an IP address in Iran, compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo...
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How Peer Review Doesn't Work
In this amusing story of a terrorist plotter using pencil-and-paper cryptography instead of actually secure cryptography, there's this great paragraph: Despite...
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Federated Authentication
New paper by Ross Anderson: "Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication?": There has been much academic discussion of federated authentication...
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Biliteral Ciphers
Interesting article on William Friedman and biliteral ciphers.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs
Some of these are actually nice.
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Authenticating the Authenticators
This is an interesting read: It was a question that changed his life, and changed mine, and may have changed -- even saved -- all of ours by calling attention...
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Identifying Tor Users Through Insecure Applications
Interesting research: "One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users": Abstract: Tor is a popular low-latency anonymity...
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Detecting Words and Phrases in Encrypted VoIP Calls
Interesting: Abstract: Although Voice over IP (VoIP) is rapidly being adopted, its security implications are not yet fully understood. Since VoIP calls may traverse...
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Transmitting Data Through Steel
This is cool: Tristan Lawry, doctoral candidate in electrical and computer engineering, has developed equipment which can transmit data at high rates through thick...
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Threats vs. Vulnerabilities
I found this article on the difference between threats and vulnerabilities to be very interesting. I like his taxonomy.
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Folk Models in Home Computer Security
This is a really interesting paper: "Folk Models of Home Computer Security," by Rick Wash. It was presented at SOUPS, the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security...
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Times Square Video Screen Hacked with an iPhone
I didn't post about it when I first saw it because I suspected a hoax. Turns out, I was right. It wasn't even two guys faking hacking a Times Square video screen...
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RSA Security, Inc Hacked
The company, not the algorithm. Here's the corporate spin. Our investigation has led us to believe that the attack is in the category of an Advanced Persistent...
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Zombie Fungus
The security connection is pretty tenuous, so I figured I'd blog this on a Saturday. Once it infects an ant, the fungus uses as-yet-unidentified chemicals to control...
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Hacking ATM Users by Gluing Down Keys
Clever hack: The thieves glue down the "enter," "cancel" and "clear" buttons on the keypad and wait until the customer goes into the bank for help before withdrawing...
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