Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
September 21 2020This sounds like a bad idea.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Nano-Sized SQUIDS
September 18 2020SQUID news: Physicists have developed a small, compact superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that can detect magnetic fields. The team l focused on the instrument’s core, which contains two parallel...
Read moreNihilistic Password Security Questions
September 18 2020Posted three years ago, but definitely appropriate for the times.
Read moreMatt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
September 18 2020Matt Blaze discusses (also here) an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of Russian spies...
Read moreNew Bluetooth Vulnerability
September 17 2020There’s a new unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability:
The issue is with a protocol called Cross-Transport Key Derivation (or CTKD, for short). When, say, an iPhone is getting ready to pair...
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How the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
September 16 2020The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt:
The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art of cyber crime....
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Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
September 15 2020Interesting privacy analysis of the Ambient Light Sensor API. And a blog post. Especially note the “Lessons Learned” section.
Read moreInteresting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
September 14 2020It’s complicated, but it’s basically a man-in-the-middle attack that involves two smartphones. The first phone reads the actual smartcard, and then forwards the required information to a second...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Calamari vs. Squid
September 11 2020St. Louis Magazine answers the important question: “Is there a difference between calamari and squid?” Short answer: no. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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