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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012.

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AI and Trust

Schneier on Security

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. You may have read about the “ paperclip maximizer “: an AI that has been programmed to make as many paper clips as possible, and ends up destroying the earth to achieve those ends. It’s a weird fear. Science fiction author Ted Chiang writes about it.