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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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Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor
Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain...
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Military Carrier Pigeons in the Era of Electronic Warfare
They have advantages: Pigeons are certainly no substitute for drones, but they provide a low-visibility option to relay information. Considering the storage capacity...
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The Evolution of Darknets
This is interesting: To prevent the problems of customer binding, and losing business when darknet markets go down, merchants have begun to leave the specialized...
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Hacking Construction Cranes
Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be (easily) taken...
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Clever Smartphone Malware Concealment Technique
This is clever: Malicious apps hosted in the Google Play market are trying a clever trick to avoid detection -- they monitor the motion-sensor input of an infected...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Lollipops
Two squid lollipops, handmade by Shinri Tezuka. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
The so-called Crypto Wars have been going on for 25 years now. Basically, the FBI -- and some of their peer agencies in the U.K., Australia, and elsewhere -- argue...
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Prices for Zero-Day Exploits Are Rising
Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit...
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El Chapo's Encryption Defeated by Turning His IT Consultant
Impressive police work: In a daring move that placed his life in danger, the I.T. consultant eventually gave the F.B.I. his system's secret encryption keys in 2011...
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Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos argues that increasing political pressure on social media platforms to moderate content will give them a pretext to turn all end...
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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 A New Initiative for Poland in Warsaw, January 16-17, 2019. I'm speaking at the...
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Why Internet Security Is So Bad
I recently read two different essays that make the point that while Internet security is terrible, it really doesn't affect people enough to make it an issue. This...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video
This is a fantastic video of a young giant squid named Heck swimming around Toyama Bay near Tokyo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics
Nice work: One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Cell Phone Systems
Good essay on the inherent vulnerabilities in the cell phone standards and the market barriers to fixing them. So far, industry and policymakers have largely dragged...
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EU Offering Bug Bounties on Critical Open-Source Software
The EU is offering "bug bounties on Free Software projects that the EU institutions rely on." Slashdot thread....
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Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities
No one doubts that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will transform cybersecurity. We just don't know how, or when. While the literature generally...
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New Attack Against Electrum Bitcoin Wallets
This is clever: How the attack works: Attacker added tens of malicious servers to the Electrum wallet network. Users of legitimate Electrum wallets initiate a Bitcoin...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Future of the Squid Market
It's growing. 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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