When Security Locks You Out of Everything
June 28 2022Thought experiment story of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:
But to get into my cloud, I need my password and...
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I did not attend WEIS this year, but Ross Anderson was there and liveblogged all the talks.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Cubes
June 24 2022Researchers thaw squid frozen into a cube and often make interesting discoveries. (Okay, this is a weird story.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
Read moreEarlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space....
Read moreOn the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
June 23 2022Nadiya Kostyuk and Susan Landau wrote an interesting paper: “Dueling Over DUAL_EC_DRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process“:
Abstract: In recent decades, the U.S. National Institute of...
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Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
June 22 2022What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines....
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Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act; and S. 2710,...
Read moreHertzbleed: A New Side-Channel Attack
June 20 2022Hertzbleed is a new side-channel attack that works against a variety of microprocressors. Deducing cryptographic keys by analyzing power consumption has long been an attack, but it’s not generally...
Read moreFrom a restaurant in Singapore. It’s not actually giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
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