UK Electoral Commission Hacked
August 16 2023The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind...
Read moreZoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
August 15 2023This is why we need regulation:
Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data...
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
August 14 2023The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be...
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Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
August 12 2023Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey:
This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids, weighing about 15kg and sitting at...
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Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy. Seems like this flaw is being...
Read moreUsing Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
August 9 2023Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy.
“A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards”
Abstract: With recent developments in deep...
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I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards.
This process has been going on since 2016, and since that...
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Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
August 7 2023A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen...
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