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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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Electronic Car Lock Denial-of-Service Attack
Clever: Inspector Richard Haycock told local newspapers that the possible use of the car lock jammers would help explain a recent spate of thefts from vehicles...
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Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
I am the program chair for WEIS 2011, which is to be held next June in Washington, DC. Submissions are due at the end of February. Please forward and repost the...
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Predator Software Pirated?
This isn't good: Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small Boston-based software development firm, alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Ha! When he's out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito
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Fingerprinting Telephone Calls
This is clever: The tool is called PinDr0p, and works by analysing the various characteristic noise artifacts left in audio by the different types of voice network...
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Indian OS
India is writing its own operating system so it doesn't have to rely on Western technology: India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) wants...
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Picking a Single Voice out of a Crowd
Interesting new technology. Squarehead's new system is like bullet-time for sound. 325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle...
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Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
Some copycat imitated this xkcd cartoon in Sweden, hand writing an SQL injection attack onto a paper ballot. Even though the ballot was manually entered into the...
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The FBI is Tracking Whom?
They're tracking a college student in Silicon Valley. He's 20, partially Egyptian, and studying marketing at Mission College. He found the tracking device attached...
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The Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
Remember the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination last January? The police identified 30 suspects, but haven't been able to find any of them. Police spent about 10...
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The Economist on Biometrics
Good article. Here's my essay on biometrics, from 1999.
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The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings
From Slate: We do nothing, first and foremost, because there is nothing we can do. Unless the State Department gets specific
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Hacking Trial Breaks D.C. Internet Voting System
Sounds like it was easy: Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer...
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The Politics of Allocating Homeland Security Money to States
From the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: "Politics or Risks? An Analysis of Homeland Security Grant Allocations to the States." Abstract...
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Stuxnet
Computer security experts are often surprised at which stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Sometimes it makes no sense. Why this particular data breach...
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Putting Unique Codes on Objects to Detect Counterfeiting
This will help some. At least two rival systems plan to put unique codes on packages containing antimalarials and other medications. Buyers will be able to text...
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Analyzing CAPTCHAs
New research: "Attacks and Design of Image Recognition CAPTCHAs." Abstract. We systematically study the design of image recognition CAPTCHAs (IRCs) in this paper...
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Sky Marshals Flying First Class
I regularly say that security decisions are primarily made for non-security reasons. This article about the placement of sky marshals on airplanes is an excellent...
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