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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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Biometric Wallet
Not an electronic wallet, a physical one: Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked...
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NIST Defines New Versions of SHA-512
NIST has just defined two new versions of SHA-512. They're SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256: 224- and 256-bit truncations of SHA-512 with a new IV. They've done this...
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Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board
Recently declassified: "Historical Study: The National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board 1952
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Romanian Hackers
Interesting article from Wired: "How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central."
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The Seven Types of Hackers
Roger Grimes has an article describing "the seven types of malicious hackers." I generally like taxonomies, and this one is pretty good. He says the seven types...
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Societal Security
Humans have a natural propensity to trust non-kin, even strangers. We do it so often, so naturally, that we don't even realize how remarkable it is. But except...
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Credit Card Fraud Ring
It amazes me that credit card fraud is so easy that you can run it from prison.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pheromone
A newly discovered female squid pheromone sparks aggression in male squids. Article.
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Julian Sanchez on Balancing Privacy and Security
From a blog post: In my own area of study, the familiar trope of "balancing privacy and security" is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because...
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How Feed-Over-Email Circumvents Chinese Censorship
Neat article, both the technology and the hacker who created it.
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Hacking Scratch Lottery Tickets
Design failure means you can pick winning tickets before scratching the coatings off. Most interesting is that there's statistical evidence that this sort of attack...
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Bomb-Sniffing Mice
I was interviewed for this story on a mouse-powered explosives detector. Animal senses are better than any detection machine current technology can build, which...
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Micromorts
I'd never heard the term "micromort" before. It's a probability: a one-in-a-million probability of death. For example, one-micromort activities are "travelling...
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Scareware: How Crime Pays
Scareware is fraudulent software that uses deceptive advertising to trick users into believing they're infected with some variety of malware, then convinces them...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Reducing Squid Odor
Research from Japan: "Improvement of 'kurozukuri ika-shiokara' (fermented squid meat with ink) odor with Staphylococcus nepalensis isolated from the fish sauce...
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UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
A UK immigration officer decided to get rid of his wife by putting her on the no-fly list, ensuring that she could not return to the UK from abroad. This worked...
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Terrorist Targets of Choice
This makes sense. Generally, militants prefer to attack soft targets where there are large groups of people, that are symbolic and recognizable around the world...
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ATM Skimmer on Bank Door Lock
This is a clever development in ATM skimming technology. It's a skimmer that attaches to the ATM-room door lock, not the ATM itself. Combined with a hidden camera...
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Hacking HTTP Status Codes
One website can learn if you're logged into other websites. When you visit my website, I can automatically and silently determine if you're logged into Facebook...
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