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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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Friday Squid Blogging: A Good Year for Squid?
Improved ocean conditions are leading to optimism about this year’s squid catch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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Using AI to Scale Spear Phishing
The problem with spear phishing it that it takes time and creativity to create individualized enticing phishing emails. Researchers are using GPT-3 to attempt to...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (via Internet) at SHIFT Business Festival in Finland, August 25-26, 2021. I’ll be...
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Cobolt Strike Vulnerability Affects Botnet Servers
Cobolt Strike is a security tool, used by penetration testers to simulate network attackers. But it’s also used by attackers — from criminals to governments — to...
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Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. I have been following the details, and discussing it in several...
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Defeating Microsoft’s Trusted Platform Module
This is a really interesting story explaining how to defeat Microsoft’s TPM in 30 minutes — without having to solder anything to the motherboard. Researchers at...
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Squid Dog Toy
It’s sold out, but the pictures are cute. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
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Using “Master Faces” to Bypass Face-Recognition Authenticating Systems
Fascinating research: “Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution.” Abstract: A master face is a face image that...
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Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption
The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user...
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Paragon: Yet Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Forbes has the story: Paragon’s product will also likely get spyware critics and surveillance experts alike rubbernecking: It claims to give police the power to...
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The European Space Agency Launches Hackable Satellite
Of course this is hackable: A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched. […] Because the satellite...
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Storing Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud
New paper: “Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos“: Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo...
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I Am Parting With My Crypto Library
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin Is Naturally Anti-microbial
Often it feels like squid just evolved better than us mammals. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that Ihere...
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AirDropped Gun Photo Causes Terrorist Scare
A teenager on an airplane sent a photo of a replica gun via AirDrop to everyone who had their settings configured to receive unsolicited photos from strangers.these...
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De-anonymization Story
This is important: Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest inreportedly...
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Hiding Malware in ML Models
Interesting research: “EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models”. Abstract: Delivering malware covertly and detection-evadingly is critical to...
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Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting Bitcoin
Ransomware isn’t new; the idea dates back to 1986 with the “Brain” computer virus. Now, it’s become the criminal business model of the internet for two reasons....
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Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power...
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