AI Security Risk Assessment Tool
May 11 2021Microsoft researchers just released an open-source automation tool for security testing AI systems: “Counterfit.” Details on their blog.
Read moreRansomware Shuts Down US Pipeline
May 10 2021This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of the...
Read moreThis is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: COVID Relief Funds
May 7 2021
A town in Japan built a giant squid statue with its COVID relief grant.
One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective...
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Teaching Cybersecurity to Children
May 7 2021
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity:
The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children — an age at which...
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The Story of Colossus
May 6 2021Nice video of a talk by Chris Shore on the history of Colossus.
Read moreNew Spectre-Like Attacks
May 5 2021
There’s new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically engineered to be resistant...
Read moreTesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone
May 4 2021
This is an impressive hack:
Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click security vulnerabilities in an open-source software component...
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Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog
May 3 2021
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so...
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