Power LED Side-Channel Attack
June 19 2023This is a clever new side-channel attack:
The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader—or...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA
June 17 2023This is just crazy:
Scientists don’t yet know for sure why octopuses, and other shell-less cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish, are such prolific editors. Researchers are debating whether this...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
June 17 2023I’m just back from the sixteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop...
Read moreOn the Need for an AI Public Option
June 14 2023Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies?
Silicon...
Read moreIdentifying the Idaho Killer
June 13 2023The New York Times has a long article on the investigative techniques used to identify the person who stabbed and killed four University of Idaho students.
Pay attention to...
Read moreAI-Generated Steganography
June 12 2023New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images:
Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid
June 10 2023It’s a Taningia danae:
Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They...
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Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite
June 8 2023Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems...
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