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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...

Influence Operations Kill Chain
From Schneier on Security

Influence Operations Kill Chain

Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as...

Friday Squid Blogging: Robot Squid Propulsion
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Robot Squid Propulsion

Interesting research: The squid robot is powered primarily by compressed air, which it stores in a cylinder in its nose (do squids have noses?). The fins and arms...

Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
From Schneier on Security

Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

Boeing left its software unprotected, and researchers have analyzed it for vulnerabilities: At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta,...

Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature
From Schneier on Security

Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature

Apple's FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim's phone by putting it in front of his face while he's sleeping....

Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks
From Schneier on Security

Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks

Several high-security electronic locks are vulnerable to side-channel attacks involving power monitoring....

Attorney General Barr and Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New...

Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information
From Schneier on Security

Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information

A researcher abused the GDPR to get information on his fiancee: It is one of the first tests of its kind to exploit the EU's General Data Protection Regulation...

Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program
From Schneier on Security

Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program

Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid

Great video of the Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...

Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform
From Schneier on Security

Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. Security vulnerabilities in the update...

AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
From Schneier on Security

AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones

This wasn't a small operation: A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently...

Brazilian Cell Phone Hack
From Schneier on Security

Brazilian Cell Phone Hack

I know there's a lot of politics associated with this story, but concentrate on the cybersecurity aspect for a moment. The cell phones of a thousand Brazilians,...

Phone Farming for Ad Fraud
From Schneier on Security

Phone Farming for Ad Fraud

Interesting article on people using banks of smartphones to commit ad fraud for profit. No one knows how prevalent ad fraud is on the Internet. I believe it is...

Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
From Schneier on Security

Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware

Siena Anstis, Ronald J. Deibert, John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance...

Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid Video
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid Video

Really neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
From Schneier on Security

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp

Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans...

Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers
From Schneier on Security

Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers

There's a really interesting video of protesters in Hong Kong using some sort of laser to disable security cameras. I know nothing more about the technologies involved...
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