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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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Lousy IoT Security
DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five...
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Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure Over the Internet
This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances...
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Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's...
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Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many...
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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 SecIT by Heise in Hannover, Germany on March 26, 2020. The list is maintained...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid
Interesting stuff. 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 guidelines...
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EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance
EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading...
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Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
Back in 1998, Tim May warned us of the "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse": "terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers." I tended to cast it slightly...
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Extracting Data from Smartphones
Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....
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Reforming CDA 230
There's a serous debate on reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I am in the process of figuring out what I believe, and this is more a place...
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Failure Modes in Machine Learning
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or -- in their words -- intentional and unintentional failure...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squidfall Safety
Watchmen supporting material. 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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Andy Ellis on Risk Assessment
Andy Ellis, the CSO of Akamai, gave a great talk about the psychology of risk at the Business of Software conference this year. I've written about this before....
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Election Machine Insecurity Story
Interesting story of a flawed computer voting machine and a paper ballot available for recount. All ended well, but only because of that paper backup. Vote totals...
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Becoming a Tech Policy Activist
Carolyn McCarthy gave an excellent TEDx talk about becoming a tech policy activist. It's a powerful call for public-interest technologists....
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RSA-240 Factored
This just in: We are pleased to announce the factorization of RSA-240, from RSA's challenge list, and the computation of a discrete logarithm of the same size (795...
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The Story of Tiversa
The New Yorker has published the long and interesting story of the cybersecurity firm Tiversa. Watching "60 Minutes," Boback saw a remarkable new business angle...
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Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use
New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Like Underwater Drone
The Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone (SHARD) swims like a squid and can explode on command. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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