Often it feels like squid just evolved better than us mammals. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
Read moreI Am Parting With My Crypto Library
July 30 2021
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs —...
Read moreStoring Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud
July 30 2021
New paper: “Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos“:
Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for...
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AirDropped Gun Photo Causes Terrorist Scare
July 29 2021A teenager on an airplane sent a photo of a replica gun via AirDrop to everyone who had their settings configured to receive unsolicited photos from strangers. This caused...
Read moreDe-anonymization Story
July 28 2021
This is important:
Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop,...
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Hiding Malware in ML Models
July 27 2021
Interesting research: “EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models”.
Abstract: Delivering malware covertly and detection-evadingly is critical to advanced malware campaigns. In this paper, we present a method...
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Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting Bitcoin
July 26 2021
Ransomware isn’t new; the idea dates back to 1986 with the “Brain” computer virus. Now, it’s become the criminal business model of the internet for two reasons. The...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: The Evolution of Squid
July 23 2021Good video about the evolutionary history of 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...
Read moreCommercial Location Data Used to Out Priest
July 23 2021
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis:
The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how...
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