A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.
Read moreSide-Channel Attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber
February 28 2023CRYSTALS-Kyber is one of the public-key algorithms currently recommended by NIST as part of its post-quantum cryptography standardization process.
Researchers have just published a side-channel attack—using...
Read moreBanning TikTok
February 27 2023Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Processing Facility
February 25 2023This video of a modern large squid processing ship is a bit gory, but also interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read morePutting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
February 24 2023This is really interesting research from a few months ago:
Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task...
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Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine
February 23 2023The Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the current war in Ukraine: “The Cyber Defense Assistance...
Read moreA Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green
February 22 2023Here’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights in his path green.
As mentioned earlier, the Flipper...
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The Insecurity of Photo Cropping
February 21 2023The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping:
One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals...
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Fines as a Security System
February 20 2023Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking:
The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure,...
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