Details of a Phone Scam
February 21 2024First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And...
Read moreMicrosoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
February 20 2024Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
From their report:
In collaboration with OpenAI, we are...
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EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors
February 20 2024The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights:
Seemingly most critically, the [Russian] government told the ECHR that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Squid-Ink Pasta
February 17 2024It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
Read moreOn the Insecurity of Software Bloat
February 15 2024Good essay on software bloat and the insecurities it causes.
The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected. Because...
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Improving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms
February 14 2024The winner of the Best Paper Award at Crypto this year was a significant improvement to lattice-based cryptanalysis. This is important, because a bunch of NIST’s post-quantum options base their...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind is Out in Paperback
February 14 2024The paperback version of A Hacker’s Mind has just been published. It’s the same book, only a cheaper format. But—and this is the real reason I am posting this—Amazon has...
Read moreMolly White Reviews Blockchain Book
February 13 2024Molly White—of “Web3 is Going Just Great” fame—reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own:
In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a...
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On Passkey Usability
February 13 2024Matt Burgess tries to only use passkeys. The results are mixed.
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