A Robot the Size of the World
December 15 2023In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It was connected to your smartphone. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats....
Read moreSurveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
December 15 2023This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
Read moreSurveillance by the US Postal Service
December 13 2023This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track down an...
Read moreNew Windows/Linux Firmware Attack
December 12 2023Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images:
LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years, if not decades, in Unified Extensible...
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Facebook Enables Messenger End-to-End Encryption by Default
December 11 2023It’s happened. Details here, and tech details here (for messages in transit) and here (for messages in storage) Rollout to everyone will take months, but it’s a good day for...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Influencer Accidentally Posts Restaurant Table QR Ordering Code
December 9 2023Another rare security + squid story:
The woman—who has only been identified by her surname, Wang—was having a meal with friends at a hotpot restaurant in Kunming, a city...
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New Bluetooth Attack
December 8 2023New attack breaks forward secrecy in Bluetooth.
BLUFFS is a series of exploits targeting Bluetooth, aiming to break Bluetooth sessions’ forward and future...
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Spying through Push Notifications
December 7 2023When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either...
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