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Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
From Schneier on Security

Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent...

More on Law Enforcement Backdoor Demands
From Schneier on Security

More on Law Enforcement Backdoor Demands

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy convened an Encryption Working Group to attempt...

On Cybersecurity Insurance
From Schneier on Security

On Cybersecurity Insurance

Good paper on cybersecurity insurance: both the history and the promise for the future. From the conclusion: Policy makers have long held high hopes for cyber insurance...

NotPetya
From Schneier on Security

NotPetya

Wired has a long article on NotPetya....

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Perfume
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Perfume

It's not perfume for squids. Nor is it perfume made from squids. It's a perfume called Squid, "inspired by life in the sea." As usual, you can also use this squid...

Default Password for GPS Trackers
From Schneier on Security

Default Password for GPS Trackers

Many GPS trackers are shipped with the default password 123456. Many users don't change them. We just need to eliminate default passwords. This is an easy win.....

The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
From Schneier on Security

The Doghouse: Crown Sterling

A decade ago, the Doghouse was a regular feature in both my email newsletter Crypto-Gram and my blog. In it, I would call out particularly egregious -- and amusing...

Credit Card Privacy
From Schneier on Security

Credit Card Privacy

Good article in the Washington Post on all the surveillance associated with credit card use....

Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs
From Schneier on Security

Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. This story broke in waves, the first wave being about the iPhone. Earlier...

Friday Squid Blogging: Why Mexican Jumbo Squid Populations Have Declined
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Why Mexican Jumbo Squid Populations Have Declined

A group of scientists conclude that it's shifting weather patterns and ocean conditions. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...

Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave
From Schneier on Security

Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave

Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy...

AI Emotion-Detection Arms Race
From Schneier on Security

AI Emotion-Detection Arms Race

Voice systems are increasingly using AI techniques to determine emotion. A new paper describes an AI-based countermeasure to mask emotion in spoken words. Their...

The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
From Schneier on Security

The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's...

The Threat of Fake Academic Research
From Schneier on Security

The Threat of Fake Academic Research

Interesting analysis of the possibility, feasibility, and efficacy of deliberately fake scientific research, something I had previously speculated about....

Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
From Schneier on Security

Detecting Credit Card Skimmers

Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There's now an app that can detect them: The team from the University of...

Friday Squid Blogging: Vulnerabilities in Squid Server
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Vulnerabilities in Squid Server

It's always nice when I can combine squid and security: Multiple versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are currently...

License Plate "NULL"
From Schneier on Security

License Plate "NULL"

There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial...

Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform
From Schneier on Security

Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform

From DefCon: At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. The DIY computer fits...

Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability

There's no indication that this vulnerability was ever used in the wild, but the code it was discovered in -- Microsoft's Text Services Framework -- has been around...

Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
From Schneier on Security

Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid

Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is...
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