Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus
April 11 2023Car thieves are injecting malicious software into a car’s network through wires in the headlights (or taillights) that fool the car into believing that the electronic key is nearby. News...
Read moreLLMs and Phishing
April 10 2023Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Food Poisoning
April 8 2023University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees:
On Sunday, a...
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Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
April 6 2023New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries”:
As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems will make choices and...
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FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market
April 5 2023Genesis Market is shut down:
Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems...
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UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites
April 3 2023Brian Krebs is reporting that the UK’s National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation:
The NCA says all of its fake...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Marlin
April 1 2023Epic matchup. 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 posting guidelines here.
Read moreRussian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
March 31 2023Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before...
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