Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
November 25 2023Pretty photograph. The Squid Nebula is shown in blue, indicating doubly ionized oxygen—which is when you ionize your oxygen once and then ionize it again just to make sure. (In...
Read moreChocolate Swiss Army Knife
November 25 2023It’s realistic looking. If I drop it in a bin with my keys and wallet, will the TSA confiscate it?
Read moreLitterDrifter USB Worm
November 24 2023A new worm that spreads via USB sticks is infecting computers in Ukraine and beyond.
The group—known by many names, including Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Armageddon, and Shuckworm—has been...
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Apple to Add Manual Authentication to iMessage
November 22 2023Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it:
The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its...
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Email Security Flaw Found in the Wild
November 21 2023Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world.
TAG has observed four different groups...
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Using Generative AI for Surveillance
November 20 2023Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it...
Read moreIn a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreRansomware Gang Files SEC Complaint
November 18 2023A ransomware gang, annoyed at not being paid, filed an SEC complaint against its victim for not disclosing its security breach within the required four days.
This is over...
Read moreFTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge
November 17 2023The Federal Trade Commission is running a competition “to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.”
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