Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before...
Read moreMapping License Plate Scanners in the US
November 13 2024DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners. It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped. The post Mapping License Plate...
Read moreCriminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
November 12 2024I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines
November 9 2024Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month. Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live squid...
Read morePrompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
November 8 2024Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“:
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate cyberattacks, making sophisticated exploits more...
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Subverting LLM Coders
November 7 2024Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“:
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code completion tasks, providing...
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IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
November 6 2024Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem...
Read moreAIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
November 5 2024I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning,...
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