AI and Political Lobbying
January 18 2023Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing.
Created by...
Read moreThe FBI Identified a Tor User
January 17 2023No details, though:
According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May...
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Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
January 16 2023Cellebrite is an cyberweapons arms manufacturer that sells smartphone forensic software to governments around the world. MSAB is a Swedish company that does the same thing. Someone has released...
Read moreBooklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
January 15 2023Booklist reviews A Hacker’s Mind:
Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier (Data and Goliath, 2015) defines a “hack” as an activity allowed by a system “that subverts the rules...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid
January 14 2023Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreThreats of Machine-Generated Text
January 13 2023With the release of ChatGPT, I’ve read many random articles about this or that threat from the technology. This paper is a good survey of the field:...
Read moreExperian Privacy Vulnerability
January 12 2023Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website:
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three...
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ChatGPT-Written Malware
January 10 2023I don’t know how much of a thing this will end up being, but we are seeing ChatGPT-written malware in the wild.
…within a few weeks of ChatGPT going...
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Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
January 9 2023The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This is the interesting part:
Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan almost immediately after the attacks...
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