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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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Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance
This paper describes a SIGINT and code-breaking alliance between Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France called Maximator: Abstract: This article is...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Squid
Makes sense; there's room inside a squid's body cavity: Latin American drug lords have sent bumper shipments of cocaine to Europe in recent weeks, including one...
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Me on COVAD-19 Contact Tracing Apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman...
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Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing...
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How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
This is interesting: Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union...
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Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
MIT researchers have built a system that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms: The software, developed by a team at MIT, looks...
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Automatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Backlight Themselves to Communicate More Clearly
This is neat: Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators...
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Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented...
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Chinese COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
The New York Times is reporting on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns coming out of China: Since that wave of panic, United States intelligence agencies have...
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New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered
Last year, ZecOps discovered two iPhone zero-day exploits. They will be patched in the next iOS release: Avraham declined to disclose many details about who the...
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Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications...
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Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On the Efficacy of Squid as Bait
How to use squid as bait. 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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The DoD Isn't Fixing Its Security Problems
It has produced several reports outlining what's wrong and what needs to be fixed. It's not fixing them: GAO looked at three DoD-designed initiatives to see whether...
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California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic
This one isn't even related to contact tracing: On March 17, 2020, the federal government relaxed a number of telehealth-related regulatory requirements due to...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm being interviewed on "Hacking in the Public Interest" as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series...
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Ransomware Now Leaking Stolen Documents
Originally, ransomware didn't involve any data theft. Malware would encrypt the data on your computer, and demand a ransom for the encryption key. Now ransomware...
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Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app. (Details, such as we have them, are here.) It's similar...
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