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Detecting Phishing Emails

November 6 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Phishing, Security

Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“:

Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be something they are not in order to get the...
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California Proposition 24 Passes

November 5 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security

California’s Proposition 24, aimed at improving the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed this week. Analyses are very mixed. I was very mixed on the proposition, but on the whole...

Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements

November 4 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Security

Accuracy isn’t great, but that it can be done at all is impressive.

Murtuza Jadiwala, a computer science professor heading the research project, said his team was able to...
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New Windows Zero-Day

November 2 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Exploits, Security, Windows, Zero-day

Google’s Project Zero has discovered and published a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver. The exploit doesn’t affect the cryptography, but allows attackers to escalate...

Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher

October 30 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Security

Interview with Mike Vecchione, Curator of Cephalopoda — now that’s a job title — at the Smithsonian Museum of National History.

One reason they’re so interesting is they are...
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The Legal Risks of Security Research

October 30 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Security

Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published “A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research.”

From a summary:

Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking laws, implicating copyright law...
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Tracking Users on Waze

October 29 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Security, vulnerabilities

A security researcher discovered a wulnerability in Waze that breaks the anonymity of users:

I found out that I can visit Waze from any web browser at Read more

The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

October 28 2020 By Bruce Schneier in nsa, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer:

The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for the spy agency...
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Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition

October 27 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Reverse Engineering, Security

Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard in the modern age, but...

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Detecting Phishing Emails

California Proposition 24 Passes

Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements

New Windows Zero-Day

Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher

The Legal Risks of Security Research

Tracking Users on Waze

The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition

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