On Pig Butchering Scams
February 14 2023“Pig butchering” is the colorful name given to online cons that trick the victim into giving money to the scammer, thinking it is an investment opportunity. It’s a rapidly...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy
February 11 2023I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC. So there. As...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind Is Now Published
February 11 2023Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on...
Read moreHacking the Tax Code
February 10 2023The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces...
Read moreMary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
February 9 2023This is a neat piece of historical research.
The team of computer scientist George Lasry, pianist Norbert Biermann and astrophysicist Satoshi Tomokiyo—all keen cryptographers—initially thought the batch...
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SolarWinds and Market Incentives
February 8 2023In early 2021, IEEE Security and Privacy asked a number of board members for brief perspectives on the SolarWinds incident while it was still breaking news. This was my...
Read moreMalware Delivered through Google Search
February 7 2023Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently.
The surge is coming from numerous malware...
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Attacking Machine Learning Systems
February 6 2023The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated techniques to perturb, disrupt, or steal the ML model or data. It’s a...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid
February 4 2023A survey of giant squid science. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
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