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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 …
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Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data
Insider data theft: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal...
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Massive Brazilian Data Breach
I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. (Lots more stories are in Portuguese.)
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Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised: A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance...
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SVR Attacks on Microsoft 365
FireEye is reporting the current known tactics that the SVR used to compromise Microsoft 365 cloud data as part of its SolarWinds operation: Mandiant has observed...
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Sophisticated Watering Hole Attack
Google’s Project Zero has exposed a sophisticated watering-hole attack targeting both Windows and Android: Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted...
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Injecting a Backdoor into SolarWinds Orion
Crowdstrike is reporting on a sophisticated piece of malware that was able to inject malware into the SolarWinds build process: Key Points SUNSPOT is StellarParticle...
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Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody in hardcover for just $6, plus shipping. Note that I have had occasional problems...
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Cell Phone Location Privacy
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out...
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Finding the Location of Telegram Users
Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users: Using...
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On US Capitol Security — By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
Smart commentary: …I was floored on Wednesday when, glued to my television, I saw police in some areas of the U.S. Capitol using little more than those same mobile...
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Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
This is a clever side-channel attack: The cloning works by using a hot air gun and a scalpel to remove the plastic key casing and expose the NXP A700X chip, which...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Don’t Like Pile-Driving Noises
New research: Pile driving occurs during construction of marine platforms, including offshore windfarms, producing intense sounds that can adversely affect marine...
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Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability...
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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
The information that is emerging about Russia’s extensive cyberintelligence operation against the United States and other countries should be increasingly alarming...
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APT Horoscope
This delightful essay matches APT hacker groups up with astrological signs. This is me: Capricorn is renowned for its discipline, skilled navigation, and steadfastness...
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Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2
Researchers have been able to find all sorts of personal information within GPT-2. This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the...
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Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways
This is bad: More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers...
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Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack
The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). ...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Chili Squid
The restaurant chain Wagamama is selling a vegan version of its Chilli Squid side dish made from king oyster mushrooms. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
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