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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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Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG
Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today...
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On Risk-Based Authentication
Interesting usability study: “More Than Just Good Passwords? A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication“: Abstract: Risk-based Authentication...
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COVID-19 and Acedia
Note: This isn’t my usual essay topic. Still, I want to put it on my blog. Six months into the pandemic with no end in sight, many of us have been feeling a sense...
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Friday Squid Blogging: After Squidnight
Review of a squid-related children’s book. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
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Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat
Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle...
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Negotiating with Ransomware Gangs
Really interesting conversation with someone who negotiates with ransomware gangs: For now, it seems that paying ransomware, while obviously risky and empowering...
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Hacking a Coffee Maker
As expected, IoT devices are filled with vulnerabilities: As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of...
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Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack
A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented...
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On Executive Order 12333
Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order...
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Iranian Government Hacking Android
The New York Times wrote about a still-unreleased report from Chckpoint and the Miaan Group: The reports, which were reviewed by The New York Times in advance of...
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Interview with the Author of the 2000 Love Bug Virus
No real surprises, but we finally have the story. The story he went on to tell is strikingly straightforward. De Guzman was poor, and internet access was expensive...
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Friday Squid Blogging: COVID-19 Found on Chinese Squid Packaging
I thought the virus doesn’t survive well on food packaging: Authorities in China’s northeastern Jilin province have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging...
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CEO of NS8 Charged with Securities Fraud
The founder and CEO of the Internet security company NS8 has been arrested and “charged in a Complaint in Manhattan federal court with securities fraud, fraud in...
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Nihilistic Password Security Questions
Posted three years ago, but definitely appropriate for the times.
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Amazon Delivery Drivers Hacking Scheduling System
Amazon drivers — all gig workers who don’t work for the company — are hanging cell phones in trees near Amazon delivery stations, fooling the system into thinking...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Nano-Sized SQUIDS
SQUID news: Physicists have developed a small, compact superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that can detect magnetic fields. The team l focused on...
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Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
This sounds like a bad idea.
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Matt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
Matt Blaze discusses an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of...
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