Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Friday Squid Blogging: How the Optic Lobe Controls Squid Camouflage
Experiments on the oval squid. 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...
From Schneier on Security
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors
The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw...
From Schneier on Security
New Book Coming in September: "Click Here to Kill Everybody"
My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Norton is still the publisher. The title is now Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Adblocker Blockers
Interesting research on the prevalence of adblock blockers: "Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis": Abstract: Millions...
From Schneier on Security
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks
After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side...
From Schneier on Security
Tamper-Detection App for Android
Edward Snowden and Nathan Freitas have created an Android app that detects when it's being tampered with. The basic idea is to put the app on a second phone and...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Santa Surveillance Camera
Reka makes a "decorative Santa cam," meaning that it's not a real camera. Instead, it just gets children used to being under constant surveillance. Our Santa Cam...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Star Wars
A fun video describing some of the many Federation security vulnerabilities in the first Star Wars movie. Happy New Year, everyone....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Populations Are Exploding
New research: "Global proliferation of cephalopods" Summary: Human activities have substantially changed the world's oceans in recent decades, altering marine food...
From Schneier on Security
Profile of Reality Winner
New York Magazine published an excellent profile of the single-document leaker Reality Winner....
From Schneier on Security
The "Extended Random" Feature in the BSAFE Crypto Library
Matthew Green wrote a fascinating blog post about the NSA's efforts to increase the amount of random data exposed in the TLS protocol, and how it interacts with...
From Schneier on Security
Post-Quantum Algorithms
NIST has organized a competition for public-key algorithms secure against a quantum computer. It recently published all of its Round 1 submissions. (Details of...
From Schneier on Security
Acoustical Attacks against Hard Drives
Interesting destructive attack: "Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs": Abstract: Among storage components, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Gonatus Squid Eating a Dragonfish
There's a video: Last July, Choy was on a ship off the shore of Monterey Bay, looking at the video footage transmitted by an ROV many feet below. A Gonatus squid...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon's Door Lock Is Amazon's Bid to Control Your Home
Interesting essay about Amazon's smart lock: When you add Amazon Key to your door, something more sneaky also happens: Amazon takes over. You can leave your keys...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit
The story of the recent vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit....
From Schneier on Security
Details on the Mirai Botnet Authors
Brian Krebs has a long article on the Mirai botnet authors, who pled guilty....
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Found -- and Disclosed -- a Windows 10 Vulnerability
Now this is good news. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) -- part of GCHQ -- found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component)...
From Schneier on Security