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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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E-Mail Vulnerabilities and Disclosure
Last week, researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in a large number of encrypted email clients: specifically, those that use OpenPGP and S/MIME, including Thunderbird...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Do Cephalopods Contain Alien DNA?
Maybe not DNA, but biological somethings. "Cause of Cambrian explosion -- Terrestrial or Cosmic?": Abstract: We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted...
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Damaging Hard Drives with an Ultrasonic Attack
Playing a sound over the speakers can cause computers to crash and possibly even physically damage the hard drive. Academic paper....
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1834: The First Cyberattack
Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux...
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Kidnapping Fraud
Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
It's not very good, but it has a squid in it. 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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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)
I'm at Carnegie Mellon University, at the eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects...
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Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Interesting research: "The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics," by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori...
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Font Steganography
Interesting research in steganography at the font level....
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Supermarket Shoplifting
The rise of self-checkout has caused a corresponding rise in shoplifting....
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Another Spectre-Like CPU Vulnerability
Google and Microsoft researchers have disclosed another Spectre-like CPU side-channel vulnerability, called "Speculative Store Bypass." Like the others, the fix...
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Japan's Directorate for Signals Intelligence
The Intercept has a long article on Japan's equivalent of the NSA: the Directorate for Signals Intelligence. Interesting, but nothing really surprising. The directorate...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
Flying squid are real. 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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Maliciously Changing Someone's Address
Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course,...
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White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Position
The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea....
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Accessing Cell Phone Location Information
The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service...
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Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers...
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Details on a New PGP Vulnerability
A new PGP vulnerability was announced today. Basically, the vulnerability makes use of the fact that modern e-mail programs allow for embedded HTML objects. Essentially...
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