SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier
May 3 2023New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandiant detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what it...
Read moreNIST has released a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: “Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption of Quantum Safe Cryptography.” It’s only four pages long, and...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: More Squid Camouflage Research
April 29 2023Here’s a research group trying to replicate squid cell transparency in mammalian cells. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read moreHacking the Layoff Process
April 29 2023My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by...
Read moreSecurity Risks of AI
April 27 2023Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic.
Jim Dempsey, one of the...
Read moreAI to Aid Democracy
April 26 2023There’s good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall...
Read moreCyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
April 25 2023Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down.
This was QuadDream:
Key Findings
- Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft... Read more
UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
April 24 2023In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption:
As currently drafted, the Bill could...
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Friday Squid Blogging: More on Squid Fishing
April 22 2023The squid you eat most likely comes from unregulated waters. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
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