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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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Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions
Interesting research: "Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions": Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security...
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Hacking the McDonald's Monopoly Sweepstakes
Long and interesting story -- now two decades old -- of massive fraud perpetrated against the McDonald's Monopoly sweepstakes. The central fraudster was the person...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari Squid Catching Prey
The calamari squid grabs prey three feet away with its fast tentacles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Three of My Books Are Available in DRM-Free E-Book Format
Humble Bundle sells groups of e-books at ridiculously low prices, DRM free. This month, the bundles are all Wiley titles, including three of my books: Applied Cryptography...
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How the US Military Can Better Keep Hackers
Interesting commentary: The military is an impossible place for hackers thanks to antiquated career management, forced time away from technical positions, lack...
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Using In-Game Purchases to Launder Money
Evidence that stolen credit cards are being used to purchase items in games like Clash of Clans, which are then resold for cash....
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GCHQ on Quantum Key Distribution
The UK's GCHQ delivers a brutally blunt assessment of quantum key distribution: QKD protocols address only the problem of agreeing keys for encrypting data. Ubiquitous...
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Backdoors in Cisco Routers
We don't know if this is error or deliberate action, but five backdoors have been discovered already this year....
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Hacking a Robot Vacuum
The Diqee 360 robotic vacuum cleaner can be turned into a surveillance device. The attack requires physical access to the device, so in the scheme of things it's...
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The Poor Cybersecurity of US Space Assets
Good policy paper (summary here) on the threats, current state, and potential policy solutions for the poor security of US space systems....
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Identifying People by Metadata
Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Deception
This is a fantastic video of a squid attracting prey with a tentacle that looks like a smaller squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques
According to a new CSIS report, "going dark" is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted...
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Third Annual Cybercrime Conference
Ross Anderson liveblogged the Third Annual Cybercrime Conference...
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Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor
Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now...
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DARPA Wants Research into Resilient Anonymous Communications
DARPA is funding research into resilient anonymous communications systems....
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Major Bluetooth Vulnerability
Bluetooth has a serious security vulnerability: In some implementations, the elliptic curve parameters are not all validated by the cryptographic algorithm implementation...
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On Financial Fraud
There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations,...
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Nicholas Weaver on Cryptocurrencies
This is well-worth reading (non-paywalled version). Here's the opening: Cryptocurrencies, although a seemingly interesting idea, are simply not fit for purpose....
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