SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise
April 25 2022SMS phishing attacks — annoyingly called “smishing” — are becoming more common. I know that I have been receiving a lot of phishing SMS messages over the past few months....
Read moreDrawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptive composite material that can insulate beverage cups, restaurant to-go bags, parcel boxes and...
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Interesting implementation mistake:
The vulnerability, which Oracle patched on Tuesday, affects the company’s implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm in Java versions 15 and above....
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Long Article on NSO Group
April 21 2022Ronan Farrow has a long article in the New Yorker on NSO Group, which includes the news that someone — probably Spain — used the software to spy on...
Read moreClever Cryptocurrency Theft
April 20 2022Beanstalk Farms is a decentralized finance project that has a majority stake governance system: basically people have proportional votes based on the amount of currency they own. A clever...
Read moreUndetectable Backdoors in Machine-Learning Models
April 19 2022New paper: “Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models“:
Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid Video
April 15 2022Beautiful video shot off the California coast. 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...
Read moreIndustrial Control System Malware Discovered
April 14 2022The Department of Energy, CISA, the FBI, and the NSA jointly issued an advisory describing a sophisticated piece of malware called Pipedream that’s designed to attack a wide range...
Read moreA Russian cyberweapon, similar to the one used in 2016, was detected and removed before it could be used.
Key points:
- ESET researchers collaborated with CERT-UA to analyze the attack... Read more
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