Hacking 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...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind News
February 4 2023A Hacker’s Mind will be published on Tuesday.
I have done a written interview and a podcast interview about the book. It’s been chosen as a...
Read moreManipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
February 3 2023Interesting research: “Facial Misrecognition Systems: Simple Weight Manipulations Force DNNs to Err Only on Specific Persons“:
Abstract: In this paper we describe how to plant novel types of backdoors...
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AIs as Computer Hackers
February 2 2023Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their...
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