This guy is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the gargantuan super-retailer Amazon.com. Would you give him the keys to your house? No? Well now you can! Amazon recently launched their new Amazon Key service, a smartphone app controlled door lock. As an Amazon Prime member myself, I have received several emails about this new product. My first thought was “what could possibly go ...
Are the toys you are buying for your kids hackable?Can anyone listen in or have a conversation with your kids via an Internet connected toy? Sorry, but the answer is “yes.”
We have been writing for a while about the grievous lack of security on Internet-connected “smart” appliances, web cameras, baby monitors, door locks, thermostats, personal assistants, Wi-Fi, Cable, and DSL routers, and ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.11/16/2017 04:52 PM EST Original release date: November 16, 2017
The Internet of Things refers to any object or device that sends and receives data automatically through the Internet. This rapidly expanding set of “things” includes tags (also known as labels or chips that automatically track objects), sensors, and devices that interact with people and share ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Robot Gains Saudi CitizenshipFrom the Smithsonian. Last week, Saudi Arabia, became the first in the world to grant citizenship to a robot during a technological summit held in its capital. Sophia, created by Hanson Robotics, is designed to look like Audrey Hepburn and possesses advanced artificial intelligence. ...
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We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago. This does include robotic weapons systems. The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control. At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.
But we are not the far from being able to ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Robots can crack safes faster than humans — and differently. We’re going to have to start thinking about robot adversaries as we design our security systems. From Wired via Schneier.
https://www.wired.com/story/watch-robot-crack-safe/
Over the past month, the Wordfence team has been tracking a ...
Continue Reading →Remember Wednesday’s post, Will Artificial Intelligence Beat Real Intelligence? Here is the answer to that rhetorical question. For the full story, go to NPR.
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One of the persistent memes that interest me is the impending event sometimes known as “the singularity.” This is a probable future where our electronic devices become self-aware and fully autonomous. We see the beginnings of this happening all around us in devices like Amazon’s Alexa and Echo, The Nest and Google communities of smart devices, self-driving vehicles, and all the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that listen ...
CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart, was a system first theorized by cryptographer Alan Turing in 1950. We find these little “I am not a robot” challenges popping up all over the place, especially when creating a new account, registering for a web service the first time, or sometimes as form of poor man’s two-factor authentication. ...
We can’t talk about robots without thinking about robots running amok as in the Terminator movies. But it turns out that most of the robots that are available today can be easily hacked by humans.
Robots are showing up in industrial settings, in hospitals, on our roads as autonomous vehicles, in secure facilities as guards, and in our homes, as carpet cleaners, children’s companions. Soon they will be everywhere, assisting, working, ...
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