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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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The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
Nothing beats a dog’s nose for detecting explosives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough dogs: Last month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...
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Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
Researchers claim that supposedly anonymous device analytics information can identify users: On Twitter, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry have...
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Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken: The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brains
Researchers have new evidence of how squid brains develop: Researchers from the FAS Center for Systems Biology describe how they used a new live-imaging technique...
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First Review of A Hacker’s Mind
Kirkus reviews A Hacker’s Mind: A cybersecurity expert examines how the powerful game whatever system is put before them, leaving it to others to cover the cost...
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Successful Hack of Time-Triggered Ethernet
Time-triggered Ethernet (TTE) is used in spacecraft, basically to use the same hardware to process traffic with different timing and criticality. Researchers have...
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Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those...
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Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American
Computer code developed by a company called Pushwoosh is in about 8,000 Apple and Google smartphone apps. The company pretends to be American when it is actually...
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Another Event-Related Spyware App
Last month, we were warned not to install Qatar’s World Cup app because it was spyware. This month, it’s Egypt’s COP27 Summit app: The app is being promoted as...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the 24th International Information Security Conference in Madrid, Spain, on November...
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A Digital Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purse
Perfect for an evening out. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting...
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New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking. A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking...
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NSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that...
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An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy: Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, nonprofit Firefox...
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Defeating Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication
CISA is now pushing phishing-resistant multifactor authentication. Roger Grimes has an excellent post reminding everyone that “phishing-resistant” is not “phishing...
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Using Wi-FI to See through Walls
This technique measures device response time to determine distance: The scientists tested the exploit by modifying an off-the-shelf drone to create a flying scanning...
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The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. He was convicted of crimes related to covering up a cyberattack against Uber...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture
In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland. It’s the largest giant squid ever recorded—although scientists now...
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