Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022
May 31 2022Today is the second day of the fifteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Ross Anderson and Alice Hutchings at the University of Cambridge. After two...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Bites Diver
May 27 2022I agree; the diver deserved it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
Read moreMalware-Infested Smart Card Reader
May 26 2022Brian Krebs has an interesting story of a smart ID card reader with a malware-infested Windows driver, and US government employees who inadvertently buy and use them. But by all...
Read moreYet another adversarial ML attack:
Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training...
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Following a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department will no longer prosecute “good faith” security researchers with cybercrimes:
The policy for the first time directs that good-faith...
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Forging Australian Driver’s Licenses
May 23 2022The New South Wales digital driver’s license has multiple implementation flaws that allow for easy forgeries.
This file is encrypted using AES-256-CBC encryption combined with Base64 encoding.
A 4-digit application...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Street Art
May 20 2022Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Read moreThe Onion on Google Map Surveillance
May 20 2022“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” Excellent satire.
Read moreLocks that use Bluetooth Low Energy to authenticate keys are vulnerable to remote unlocking. The research focused on Teslas, but the exploit is generalizable.
In a video shared with...
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