Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Potato Masher
March 26 2021A squid potato masher for only $11.50. 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...
Read moreHacking Weapons Systems
March 26 2021Lukasz Olejnik has a good essay on hacking weapons systems. Basically, there is no reason to believe that software in weapons systems is any more vulnerability free than any other...
Read moreDetermining Key Shape from Sound
March 24 2021
It’s not yet very accurate or practical, but under ideal conditions it is possible to figure out the shape of a house key by listening to it being...
Read moreAccellion Supply Chain Hack
March 23 2021
A vulnerability in the Accellion file-transfer program is being used by criminal groups to hack networks worldwide.
There’s much in the article about when Accellion knew about the...
Read moreDetails of a Computer Banking Scam
March 22 2021
This is a longish video that describes a profitable computer banking scam that’s run out of call centers in places like India. There’s a lot of fluff about...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
March 19 2021Squid ink. 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 moreEasy SMS Hijacking
March 19 2021
Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns out that...
Read moreExploiting Spectre Over the Internet
March 18 2021
Google has demonstrated exploiting the Spectre CPU attack remotely over the web:
Today, we’re sharing proof-of-concept (PoC) code that confirms the practicality of Spectre exploits against JavaScript engines....
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Illegal Content and the Blockchain
March 17 2021Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go...
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