Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those. As usual, you can also use this squid...
Read moreSecurity and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
June 8 2024This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson,
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have...
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Espionage with a Drone
June 6 2024The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
Read moreOnline Privacy and Overfishing
June 5 2024Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were...
Read moreBreaking a Password Manager
June 4 2024Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password.
Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of...
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Seeing Like a Data Structure
June 3 2024Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control...
Read moreA piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review:
Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Colossal Squid
June 1 2024This video might be a juvenile colossal squid. 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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