Friday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid
October 7 2022The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video—”2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To“—with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreSpyware Maker Intellexa Sued by Journalist
October 7 2022The Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis was spied on by his own government, with a commercial spyware product called “Predator.” That product is sold by a company in North Macedonia...
Read moreOctober Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October 5 2022For the past nineteen years, October has been Cybersecurity Awareness Month here in the US, and that event that has always been part advice and part ridicule. I tend...
Read moreThis is interesting research:
In this paper, we develop a new mechanism for detecting audio deepfakes using techniques from the field of articulatory phonetics. Specifically, we apply fluid dynamics...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Breeding the Oval Squid
September 30 2022Japanese scientists are trying to breed the oval squid in captivity. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
Read moreSecurity Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
September 30 2022Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a...
Read moreDifferences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country
September 29 2022Depending on where you are when you download your Android apps, it might collect more or less data about you.
The apps we downloaded from Google Play also showed...
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Cold War Bugging of Soviet Facilities
September 28 2022Found documents in Poland detail US spying operations against the former Soviet Union.
The file details a number of bugs found at Soviet diplomatic facilities in Washington, D.C., New...
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