Cryptanalysis of an Old Zip Encryption Algorithm
August 12 2020Mike Stay broke an old zipfile encryption algorithm to recover $300,000 in bitcoin. DefCon talk here....
Read moreCollecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
August 11 2020The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK,...
Read moreSmart Lock Vulnerability
August 10 2020Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure: Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure and versatile smart deadbolt that...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New SQUID
August 7 2020There's a new SQUID: A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and...
Read moreThe NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
August 6 2020The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features...
Read moreCybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
August 4 2020The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic. EDITED TO ADD (8/12): Interpol report....
Read moreBlackBerry Phone Cracked
August 3 2020Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police...
Read moreTwitter Hacker Arrested
July 31 2020A 17-year-old Florida boy was arrested and charged with last week's Twitter hack. News articles. Boing Boing post. Florida state attorney press release. This is a developing story. Post...
Read moreResearchers are synthesizing squid proteins to create a face mask that better survives cleaning. (And you thought there was no connection between squid and COVID-19.) The military thinks this...
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