Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes
February 21 2022This is a clever hack against those bike-rental kiosks:
They’re stealing Citi Bikes by switching the QR scan codes on two bicycles near each other at a docking station,...
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There’s a lot of fishing going on: The number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the south Pacific has surged 13-fold from 54 active vessels in 2009 to 707 in 2020, according...
Read morePossible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
February 17 2022A reporter interviews a Uyghur human-rights advocate, and uses the Otter.ai transcription app. The next day, I received an odd note from Otter.ai, the automated transcription app that I had...
Read moreVendors are Fixing Security Flaws Faster
February 16 2022Google’s Project Zero is reporting that software vendors are patching their code faster.
tl;dr
- In 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix security vulnerabilities reported from Project... Read more
Secret CIA Data Collection Program
February 15 2022Two US senators claim that the CIA has been running an unregulated — and almost certainly illegal — mass surveillance program on Americans. The senator’s statement. Some declassified information from...
Read moreThe oceans are warmer, which means more squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
Read moreOn the Irish Health Services Executive Hack
February 11 2022A detailed report of the 2021 ransomware attack against Ireland’s Health Services Executive lists some really bad security practices:
The report notes that:
- The HSE did not have a... Read more
Bunnie Huang’s Plausibly Deniable Database
February 10 2022Bunnie Huang has created a Plausibly Deniable Database.
Most security schemes facilitate the coercive processes of an attacker because they disclose metadata about the secret data, such as the...
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Researchers have calculated the quantum computer size necessary to break 256-bit elliptic curve public-key cryptography:
Finally, we calculate the number of physical qubits required to break the 256-bit elliptic...
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