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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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Security Risks of Relying on a Single Smartphone
Isracard used a single cell phone to communicate with credit card clients, and receive documents via WhatsApp. An employee stole the phone. He reformatted the SIM...
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Lightning Cable with Embedded Eavesdropping
Normal-looking cables (USB-C, Lightning, and so on) that exfiltrate data over a wireless network. I blogged about a previous prototype here
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Tracking People by their MAC Addresses
Yet another article on the privacy risks of static MAC addresses and always-on Bluetooth connections. This one is about wireless headphones. The good news is that...
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History of the HX-63 Rotor Machine
Jon D. Paul has written the fascinating story of the HX-63, a super-complicated electromechanical rotor cipher machine made by Crypto AG.
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Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
Citizen Lab is reporting on two zero-click iMessage exploits, in spyware sold by the cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group to the Bahraini government. Thesehere...
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More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. We just got most of the index...
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Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
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Details of the Recent T-Mobile Breach
Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security. I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communication
Interesting article on squid communication. 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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Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorknob
It’s pretty. 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...
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Interesting Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
If you plug a Razer peripheral (mouse or keyboard, I think) into a Windows 10 or 11 machine, you can use a vulnerability in the Razer Synapse software — which automatically...
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Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
Interesting National Geographic article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Readhere...
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More on Apple’s iPhone Backdoor
In this post, I’ll collect links on Apple’s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links are here and here. Apple says that hash collisions in its CSAM...
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T-Mobile Data Breach
It’s a big one: As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers andalso...
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Apple’s NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm — the one it’s using for client-side scanning on the iPhone — has been reverse-engineered. Turns out it was already in iOS 14.3, and...
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Tetris: Chinese Espionage Tool
I’m starting to see writings about a Chinese espionage tool that exploits website vulnerabilities to try and identify Chinese dissidents.
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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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