New York Times op-ed on the Chinese dominance of the squid industry:
China’s domination in seafood has raised deep concerns among American fishermen, policymakers and human rights activists. They...
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You might think that libraries are kind of boring, but this self-analysis of a 2023 ransomware and extortion attack against the British Library is anything but.
Read moreIt’s yet another hardware side-channel attack:
The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is...
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It’s pretty devastating:
Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok. The technique is...
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Andrew Appel shepherded a public comment—signed by twenty election cybersecurity experts, including myself—on best practices for ballot marking devices and vote tabulation. It was written for the Pennsylvania...
Read moreWatch the Video on YouTube.com A 15-minute talk by Bruce Schneier.
Read moreThe debate over professionalizing software engineers is decades old. (The basic idea is that, like lawyers and architects, there should be some professional licensing requirement for software engineers.) Here’s...
Read moreA new species of squid was discovered, along with about a hundred other species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
Read moreBleepingComputer has the details. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot.
The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total...
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This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. It’s nothing I haven’t said here before, but for anyone...
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