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Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Defends Its Waters against Chinese Squid Fishing Boats

November 6 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Security, squid

Squid geopolitics. 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.

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...