The UK Bans Default Passwords
May 2 2024The UK is the first country to ban default passwords on IoT devices.
On Monday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to ban default guessable...
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AI Voice Scam
May 1 2024Scammers tricked a company into believing they were dealing with a BBC presenter. They faked her voice, and accepted money intended for her.
Read moreWhatsApp in India
April 30 2024Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Read moreWhale Song Code
April 29 2024During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales,...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
April 27 2024A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreLong Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
April 26 2024Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Read moreThe Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
April 25 2024The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much...
Read moreDan Solove on Privacy Regulation
April 24 2024Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade,...
Read moreMicrosoft and Security Incentives
April 23 2024Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft:
Grotto told us Microsoft had to...
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