Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
April 20 2024A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Read moreOther Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
April 18 2024After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique:
The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious...
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Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments—almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption. I wrote about many different legislative delaying tactics in A Hacker’s Mind, but this...
Read moreX.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs
April 16 2024Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with...
Read moreNew Lattice Cryptanalytic Technique
April 15 2024A new paper presents a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving certain hard lattice problems. This could be a big deal for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, since many of them...
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Engagements
April 15 2024This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking twice at RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco. I’ll be on a panel on...
Read moreIt’s a pretty awful story. 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...
Read moreBackdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
April 11 2024Last week, the Internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but...
Read moreIn Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956–2024
April 10 2024Last week, I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version. EDITED TO ADD (4/11): Two weeks...
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