Friday Squid Blogging: On the Ugliness of Squid Fishing
October 28 2023And seafood in general:
A squid ship is a bustling, bright, messy place. The scene on deck looks like a mechanic’s garage where an oil change has gone terribly...
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Messaging Service Wiretap Discovered through Expired TLS Cert
October 27 2023Fascinating story of a covert wiretap that was discovered because of an expired TLS certificate:
The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber.ru, the largest Russian...
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New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
October 26 2023Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill
MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras...
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Microsoft is Soft-Launching Security Copilot
October 25 2023Microsoft has announced an early access program for its LLM-based security chatbot assistant: Security Copilot. I am curious whether this thing is actually useful.
Read moreEPA Won’t Force Water Utilities to Audit Their Cybersecurity
October 24 2023The industry pushed back:
Despite the EPA’s willingness to provide training and technical support to help states and public water system organizations implement cybersecurity surveys, the move garnered opposition...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Protecting Cephalopods in Medical Research
September 30 2023From Nature:
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do when they are used in research. On 7 September,...
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Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library
September 27 2023Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of the same vulnerability in the libwebp...
Read moreSignal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor
September 26 2023Totally expected, but still good to hear:
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
September 23 2023An ancient squid:
New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June edition of the...
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