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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
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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1Password's Travel Mode
The 1Password password manager has just introduced "travel mode," which allows you to delete your stored passwords when you're in other countries or crossing borders...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dead Squid on Prince Edward Island
A beach on Prince Edward Island is littered with dead squid. No one knows why. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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New Report on Chinese Intelligence Cyber-Operations
The company ProtectWise just published a long report linking a bunch of Chinese cyber-operations over the past few years. The always interesting gruqq has some...
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Suing South Carolina Because Its Election Machines Are Insecure
A group called Protect Democracy is suing South Carolina because its insecure voting machines are effectively denying people the right to vote. Note: I am an advisor...
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Defeating the iPhone Restricted Mode
Recently, Apple introduced restricted mode to protect iPhones from attacks by companies like Cellebrite and Greyshift, which allow attackers to recover information...
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Installing a Credit Card Skimmer on a POS Terminal
Watch how someone installs a credit card skimmer in just a couple of seconds. I don't know if the skimmer just records the data and is collected later, or if it...
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Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft
Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use...
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Gas Pump Hack
This is weird: Police in Detroit are looking for two suspects who allegedly managed to hack a gas pump and steal over 600 gallons of gasoline, valued at about $1...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Antifungal Squid-Egg Coating
The Hawaiian bobtail squid coats its eggs with antifungal bacteria. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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WPA3
Everyone is writing about the new WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, and how it improves security over the current WPA2 standard. This summary is as good as any other...
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Department of Commerce Report on the Botnet Threat
Last month, the US Department of Commerce released a report on the threat of botnets and what to do about it. I note that it explicitly said that the IoT makes...
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Recovering Keyboard Inputs through Thermal Imaging
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, are able to recover user passwords by way of thermal imaging. The tech is pretty straightforward, but it's...
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PROPagate Code Injection Seen in the Wild
Last year, researchers wrote about a new Windows code injection technique called PROPagate. Last week, it was first seen in malware: This technique abuses the SetWindowsSubclass...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Unexpectedly Playing a Part in US/China Trade War
Chinese buyers are canceling orders to buy US squid in advance of an expected 25% tariff. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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The NSA's Domestic Surveillance Centers
The Intercept has a long story about the NSA's domestic interception points. Includes some new Snowden documents....
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Beating Facial Recognition Software with Face Makeup
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don't work with Juggalo makeup....
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California Passes New Privacy Law
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech...
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