Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy. Seems like this flaw is being...
Read moreUsing Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
August 9 2023Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy.
“A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards”
Abstract: With recent developments in deep...
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I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards.
This process has been going on since 2016, and since that...
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Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
August 7 2023A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen...
Read moreI had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read morePolitical Milestones for AI
August 4 2023ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance.
But when it...
Read moreThe Need for Trustworthy AI
August 3 2023If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it...
Read moreNew SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
August 2 2023The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules:
- Public companies must “disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine... Read more
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
August 1 2023The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
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