Suspected members of a European car-theft ring have been arrested:
The criminals targeted vehicles with keyless entry and start systems, exploiting the technology to get into the car and...
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It’s aimed at children, but it’s a good primer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreIn August, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer” designed to make it harder to trace...
Read moreCalifornia just legalized digital license plates, which seems like a solution without a problem.
The Rplate can reportedly function in extreme temperatures, has some customization features, and is managed...
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Researchers have used thermal cameras and ML guessing techniques to recover passwords from measuring the residual heat left by fingers on keyboards. From the abstract:
We detail the implementation...
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Interesting research: “ImpNet: Imperceptible and blackbox-undetectable backdoors in compiled neural networks, by Tim Clifford, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Ross Anderson, and Robert Mullins:
Abstract: Early backdoor attacks against machine...
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This is a story of one piece of what is probably a complex employment scam. Basically, real programmers are having their resumes copied and co-opted by scammers, who...
Read moreThe Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video—”2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To“—with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreThe Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis was spied on by his own government, with a commercial spyware product called “Predator.” That product is sold by a company in North Macedonia...
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