The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
March 31 2025US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group
March 29 2025In another rare squid/cybersecurity intersection, APT37 is also known as “Squid Werewolf.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreAIs as Trusted Third Parties
March 28 2025This is a truly fascinating paper: “Trusted Machine Learning Models Unlock Private Inference for Problems Currently Infeasible with Cryptography.” The basic idea is that AIs can act...
Read moreNIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures.
Read moreAI Data Poisoning
March 26 2025Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers:
Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new...
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Report on Paragon Spyware
March 25 2025Citizen Lab has a new report on Paragon’s spyware:
Key Findings:
- Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite. The company differentiates... Read more
More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps
March 24 2025Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both...
Read moreNew research: An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid...
Read moreMy Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus
March 22 2025The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI...
Read moreNCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
March 21 2025The UK’s National Computer Security Center (part of GCHQ) released a timeline—also see their blog post—for migration to quantum-computer-resistant cryptography. It even made The Guardian.
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