IronNet Has Shut Down
October 11 2024After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that...
Read moreAuto-Identification Smart Glasses
October 9 2024Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious—something similar was done in 2011—but the sort...
Read moreChina Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
October 8 2024The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government...
Read moreLargest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
October 7 2024Cloudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. (Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) News article.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Map of All Colossal Squid Sightings
October 5 2024Interesting map, from this paper. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreWeird Zimbra Vulnerability
October 3 2024Hackers can execute commands on a remote computer by sending malformed emails to a Zimbra mail server. It’s critical, but difficult to exploit reliably.
In an email sent Wednesday...
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California AI Safety Bill Vetoed
October 2 2024Governor Newsom has vetoed the state’s AI safety bill. I have mixed feelings about the bill. There’s a lot to like about it, and I want governments to regulate in...
Read moreHacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
October 1 2024This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher...
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