AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
January 21 2025Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes...
Read moreBiden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
January 20 2025President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide.
Some
Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
January 18 2025Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism, then it makes...
Read moreSocial Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
January 17 2025I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.
A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They...
Read moreFBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
January 16 2025According to a DOJ press release, the FBI was able to delete the Chinese-used PlugX malware from “approximately 4,258 U.S.-based computers and networks.”
To retrieve information from and...
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Phishing False Alarm
January 15 2025A very security-conscious company was hit with a (presumed) massive state-actor phishing attack with gift cards, and everyone rallied to combat it—until it turned out it was company management...
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Engagements
January 15 2025This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “AI: Trust & Power” at Capricon 45 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 11:30...
Read moreThe First Password on the Internet
January 14 2025It was created in 1973 by Peter Kirstein:
So from the beginning I put password protection on my gateway. This had been done in such a way that even...
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Not sure this will matter in the end, but it’s a positive move:
Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed to allow the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cotton-and-Squid-Bone Sponge
January 11 2025News:
A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic...
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