Friday Squid Blogging: Legend of the Indiana Oil-Pit Squid
December 3 2022At a GMC plant. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
Read moreExistential Risk and the Fermi Paradox
December 3 2022We know that complexity is the worst enemy of security, because it makes attack easier and defense harder. This becomes catastrophic as the effects of that attack become greater.
In...
Read moreLastPass Security Breach
December 2 2022The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.
Read moreSirius XM Software Vulnerability
December 1 2022This is new:
Newly revealed research shows that a number of major car brands, including Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura, were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug...
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Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR
November 30 2022Facebook—Meta—was just fined $276 million (USD) for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location. Meta’s total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over...
Read moreCharles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
November 29 2022Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years:
In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole words are encrypted with...
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Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
November 28 2022Laptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair:
Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs...
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The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
November 24 2022Nothing beats a dog’s nose for detecting explosives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough dogs:
Last month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a nearly 100-page report about working...
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Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
November 22 2022Researchers claim that supposedly anonymous device analytics information can identify users:
On Twitter, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry have found that Apple’s device analytics data...
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