New Zero-Click Exploits against iOS
April 20 2023Citizen Lab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by Mexico against human rights...
Read moreEFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
April 19 2023EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna.
The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite criminal laws...
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Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
April 18 2023I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing:
There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning models...
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Swatting as a Service
April 17 2023Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”:
In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid
April 15 2023Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid.
The article answers a vexing question:
So why do we always hear about the giant squid and...
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Hacking Suicide
April 15 2023Here’s a religious hack:
You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That...
Read moreGaining an Advantage in Roulette
April 14 2023You can beat the game without a computer:
On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels develop flaws, which...
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Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
April 13 2023Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process.
I wrote about this kind of thing in...
Read moreFBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
April 12 2023The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices:
Avoid using free charging...
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