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Artificial Personas and Public Discourse

Posted on By infossl
algorithms, artificialintelligence, botnets, deepfake, disinformation, essays, propaganda, Security technology, socialengineering, socialmedia, voting

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it’s time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they’re poised to take over political debate. The risk arises from two separate threads coming together: … Read More “Artificial Personas and Public Discourse” »

Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews

Posted on By infossl
artificialintelligence, Security technology, socialengineering, socialmedia

This is a fascinating hack: In today’s digital age, a large Instagram audience is considered a valuable currency. I had also heard through the grapevine that I could monetize a large following — or in my desired case — use it to have my meals paid for. So I did just that. I created an … Read More “Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews” »

Attacking Soldiers on Social Media

Posted on By infossl
china, impersonation, military, Security technology, socialengineering, socialmedia

A research group at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise — we don’t know what country they were from — to demonstrate the power of the attack technique. Over four weeks, the researchers developed fake pages and closed groups on Facebook that looked like they were associated … Read More “Attacking Soldiers on Social Media” »

Distributing Malware By Becoming an Admin on an Open-Source Project

Posted on By infossl
malware, opensource, patching, Security technology, socialengineering

The module “event-stream” was infected with malware by an anonymous someone who became an admin on the project. Cory Doctorow points out that this is a clever new attack vector: Many open source projects attain a level of “maturity” where no one really needs any new features and there aren’t a lot of new bugs … Read More “Distributing Malware By Becoming an Admin on an Open-Source Project” »

Impersonating iOS Password Prompts

Posted on By infossl
apple, impersonation, ios, passwords, Security technology, socialengineering, spoofing, vulnerabilities

This is an interesting security vulnerability: because it is so easy to impersonate iOS password prompts, a malicious app can steal your password just by asking. Why does this work? iOS asks the user for their iTunes password for many reasons, the most common ones are recently installed iOS operating system updates, or iOS apps … Read More “Impersonating iOS Password Prompts” »

Forging Voice

Posted on By infossl
authentication, biometrics, forgery, impersonation, Security technology, socialengineering, voicerecognition

LyreBird is a system that can accurately reproduce the voice of someone, given a large amount of sample inputs. It’s pretty good — listen to the demo here — and will only get better over time. The applications for recorded-voice forgeries are obvious, but I think the larger security risk will be real-time forgery. Imagine … Read More “Forging Voice” »

Malicious AI

Posted on By infossl
academicpapers, artificialintelligence, courts, crime, cybercrime, Security technology, socialengineering

It’s not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream — and the future isn’t too far off. Along similar lines, computers are able to predict court verdicts. My guess is that the real use here isn’t to predict actual court verdicts, but for well-paid … Read More “Malicious AI” »