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Interview with Me
From Schneier on Security

Interview with Me

Here's an interview with me from the Homeland Security News Wire.

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Painted on Canal Narrowboat
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Painted on Canal Narrowboat

Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

<i>Liars and Outliers</i> Cover
From Schneier on Security

Liars and Outliers Cover

My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...

Rat that Applies Poison to its Fur
From Schneier on Security

Rat that Applies Poison to its Fur

The African crested rat applies tree poison to its fur to make itself more deadly. The researchers made their discovery after presenting a wild-caught crestedAcokanthera...

Counterfeit Pilot IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security
From Schneier on Security

Counterfeit Pilot IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security

This seems like a really bad idea: ...the Transportation Security Administration began a program Tuesday allowing pilots to skirt the security-screening process...

Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
From Schneier on Security

Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios

"Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can

GPRS Hacked
From Schneier on Security

GPRS Hacked

Just announced: Nohl's group found a number of problems with GPRS. First, he says, lax authentication rules could allow an attacker to set up a fake cellular base...

"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"
From Schneier on Security

"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"

I'm a big fan of taxonomies, and this -- from Carnegie Mellon -- seems like a useful one: The taxonomy of operational cyber security risks, summarized in Table...

Free-Riding on Plant Security Countermeasures
From Schneier on Security

Free-Riding on Plant Security Countermeasures

There's a security story from biology I've used a few times: plants that use chemicals to call in airstrikes by wasps on the herbivores attacking them. This is...

MRI Lie Detectors
From Schneier on Security

MRI Lie Detectors

An article from Salon -- lots of interesting research. My previous blog post on the topic.

New Bank-Fraud Trojan
From Schneier on Security

New Bank-Fraud Trojan

Nasty: The German Federal Criminal Police (the

<i>Business Week</i> on The Cyberwar Arms Race
From Schneier on Security

Business Week on The Cyberwar Arms Race

I've been using the phrase "arms race" to describe the world's militaries' rush into cyberspace for a couple of years now. Here's a good article on the topic that...

Friday Squid Blogging: Severed Hand is Actually A Dried Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Severed Hand is Actually A Dried Squid

I just can't make this stuff up: A report of a severed hand found at an Oahu seabird sanctuary has turned out to be dried squid. Remember: if you see something...

XKCD on the CIA Hack
From Schneier on Security

XKCD on the CIA Hack

So true.

Zodiac Cipher Cracked
From Schneier on Security

Zodiac Cipher Cracked

I admit I don't pay much attention to pencil-and-paper ciphers, so I knew nothing about the Zodiac cipher. Seems it has finally been broken: The Zodiac Killer...

German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless
From Schneier on Security

German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless

I'm not surprised: The weekly Welt am Sonntag, quoting a police report, said 35 percent of the 730,000 passengers checked by the scanners set off the alarm more...

Home-Made Wi-Fi Hacking, Phone Snooping, UAV
From Schneier on Security

Home-Made Wi-Fi Hacking, Phone Snooping, UAV

Impressive.

Hacking Lotteries
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Lotteries

Two items on hacking lotteries. The first is about someone who figured out how to spot winner in a scratch-of tic-tac-toe style game, and a daily draw style game...

New Information on the Inventor of the One-Time Pad
From Schneier on Security

New Information on the Inventor of the One-Time Pad

Seems that the one-time pad was not first invented by Vernam: He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years...

Identifying People by their Writing Style
From Schneier on Security

Identifying People by their Writing Style

The article is in the context of the big Facebook lawsuit, but the part about identifying people by their writing style is interesting: Recently, a team of computer...
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