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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
History of the US Army Security Agency
Interesting history of the US Army Security Agency in the early years of Cold War Germany....
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New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant
This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services....
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Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Interesting research: "Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale": Abstract: Smart contracts -- stateful executable objects hosted on blockchains...
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Intimate Partner Threat
Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice...
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Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Humboldt Squid with Electronic Bait
Video and short commentary. 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...
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Malware from Space
Since you don't have enough to worry about, here's a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity. Abstract: A complex...
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Russians Hacked the Olympics
Two weeks ago, I blogged about the myriad of hacking threats against the Olympics. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Russia hacked the Olympics network...
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Apple to Store Encryption Keys in China
Apple is bowing to pressure from the Chinese government and storing encryption keys in China. While I would prefer it if it would take a stand against China, I...
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Cellebrite Unlocks iPhones for the US Government
Forbes reports that the Israeli company Cellebrite can probably unlock all iPhone models: Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that's become the U.S....
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E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail
If you're going to commit an illegal act, it's best not to discuss it in e-mail. It's also best to Google tech instructions rather than asking someone else to do...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Bobtail Squid and a Particular Microbe
This is the story of the Hawaiian bobtail squid and Vibrio fischeri. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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Election Security
I joined a letter supporting the Secure Elections Act (S. 2261): The Secure Elections Act strikes a careful balance between state and federal action to secure American...
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Harassment By Package Delivery
People harassing women by delivering anonymous packages purchased from Amazon. On the one hand, there is nothing new here. This could have happened decades ago,...
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New Spectre/Meltdown Variants
Researchers have discovered new variants of Spectre and Meltdown. The software mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown seem to block these variants, although the eventual...
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Facebook Will Verify the Physical Location of Ad Buyers with Paper Postcards
It's not a great solution, but it's something: The process of using postcards containing a specific code will be required for advertising that mentions a specific...
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On the Security of Walls
Interesting history of the security of walls: Dún Aonghasa presents early evidence of the same principles of redundant security measures at work in 13th century...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pin
There's a squid pin on Kickstarter. 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...
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New National Academies Report on Crypto Policy
The National Academies has just published "Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers." It looks really good, although I have not read it...
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