Apple Only Commits to Patching Latest OS Version
October 31 2022People have suspected this for a while, but Apple has made it official. It only commits to fully patching the latest version of its OS, even though it...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing
October 28 2022China claims that it is “engaging in responsible squid fishing”:
Chen Xinjun, dean of the College of Marine Sciences at Shanghai Ocean University, made the remarks in response to...
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Critical Vulnerability in Open SSL
October 28 2022There are no details yet, but it’s really important that you patch Open SSL 3.x when the new version comes out on Tuesday.
How bad is “Critical”? According to...
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Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
October 26 2022After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50...
Read moreOn the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
October 24 2022Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: The Reproductive Habits of Giant Squid
October 21 2022A recent study on giant squid that have washed ashore along the Sea of Japan coast has raised the possibility that the animal has a different reproductive method...
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Machine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because the attacks are so varied—and it seems that each new one is weirder than the next. Here’s the latest: a training-time attack...
Read moreInterview with Signal’s New President
October 20 2022Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker:
WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that...
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Museum Security
October 19 2022Interesting interview:
Banks don’t take millions of dollars and put them in plastic bags and hang them on the wall so everybody can walk right up to them. But...
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