The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a...
Read moreZoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
June 17 2020Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. (This is a change; I wrote about the initial decision here.) ...we...
Read moreBank Card "Master Key" Stolen
June 17 2020South Africa's Postbank experienced a catastrophic security failure. The bank's master PIN key was stolen, forcing it to cancel and replace 12 million bank cards. The breach resulted from...
Read moreNew research is able to recover sound waves in a room by observing minute changes in the room's light bulbs. This technique works from a distance, even from a...
Read moreExamining the US Cyber Budget
June 15 2020Jason Healey takes a detailed look at the US federal cybersecurity budget and reaches an important conclusion: the US keeps saying that we need to prioritize defense, but in...
Read moreI think we need more human organs with squid-like features. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
Read moreFacebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
June 12 2020This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of...
Read moreAnother Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
June 11 2020Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they --...
Read moreAvailability Attacks against Neural Networks
June 10 2020New research on using specially crafted inputs to slow down machine-learning neural network systems: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks shows how to find adversarial examples that cause...
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