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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Defeating the "Deal or No Deal" Arcade Game
Two teenagers figured out how to beat the "Deal or No Deal" arcade game by filming the computer animation than then slowing it down enough to determine where the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Watch Squid Change Colors
This is an amazing short video of a squid -- I don't know the species -- changing its color instantly. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
Interesting research paper: "Fear the Reaper: Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers": Abstract: Payment card fraud results in billions of dollars...
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Conspiracy Theories Around the "Presidential Alert"
Noted conspiracy theorist John McAfee tweeted: The "Presidential alerts": they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones - giving them full access to...
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Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack
Bloomberg is reporting about a Chinese espionage operating involving inserting a tiny chip into computer products made in China. I've written (alternate link) this...
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Helen Nissenbaum on Data Privacy and Consent
This is a fantastic Q&A with NYU Law Professor Helen Nissenbaum on data privacy and why it's wrong to focus on consent. I'm not going to pull a quote, because you...
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The Effects of GDPR's 72-Hour Notification Rule
The EU's GDPR regulation requires companies to report a breach within 72 hours. Alex Stamos, former Facebook CISO now at Stanford University, points out how this...
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Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners
Interesting article on terahertz millimeter-wave scanners and their uses to detect terrorist bombers. The heart of the device is a block of electronics about the...
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Sophisticated Voice Phishing Scams
Brian Krebs is reporting on some new and sophisticated phishing scams over the telephone. I second his advice: "never give out any information about yourself in...
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Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising
From Kashmir Hill: Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact...
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More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors
Earlier this month, I wrote about a statement by the Five Eyes countries about encryption and back doors. (Short summary: they like them.) One of the weird things...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Protein Used in Variable Thermal Conductivity Material
This is really neat. 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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Major Tech Companies Finally Endorse Federal Privacy Regulation
The major tech companies, scared that states like California might impose actual privacy regulations, have now decided that they can better lobby the federal government...
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Yet Another IoT Cybersecurity Document
This one is from NIST: "Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks." It's still in draft. Remember, there are many others...
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Counting People Through a Wall with WiFi
Interesting research: In the team's experiments, one WiFi transmitter and one WiFi receiver are behind walls, outside a room in which a number of people are present...
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Evidence for the Security of PKCS #1 Digital Signatures
This is interesting research: "On the Security of the PKCS#1 v1.5 Signature Scheme": Abstract: The RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature algorithm is the most widely used digital...
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New Variants of Cold-Boot Attack
If someone has physical access to your shut-down computer, they can probably break the hard-drive's encryption. This is a "cold boot" attack, and one we thought...
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Friday Squid Blogging: British Columbia "Squid Run" Is a Tourist Attraction
On James Island. 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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New Findings About Prime Number Distribution Almost Certainly Irrelevant to Cryptography
Lots of people are e-mailing me about this new result on the distribution of prime numbers. While interesting, it has nothing to do with cryptography. Cryptographers...
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