New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
August 5 2024Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Treating Squid Parasites
August 3 2024A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreLeaked GitHub Python Token
August 2 2024Here’s a disaster that didn’t happen:
Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog recently discovered a GitHub Personal Access Token in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub, which granted elevated...
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Education in Secure Software Development
August 1 2024The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF released a report on the state of education in secure software development.
…many developers lack the essential knowledge and skills to effectively implement secure...
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Nearly 7% of Internet Traffic Is Malicious
July 31 2024Cloudflare reports on the state of applications security. It claims that 6.8% of Internet traffic is malicious. And that CVEs are exploited as quickly as 22 minutes after proof-of-concepts...
Read moreProviding Security Updates to Automobile Software
July 30 2024Auto manufacturers are just starting to realize the problems of supporting the software in older models:
Today’s phones are able to receive updates six to eight years after their...
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New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos
July 29 2024The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos:
The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet”, evolved from...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sunscreen from Squid Pigments
July 27 2024They’re better for the environment. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreCompromising the Secure Boot Process
July 27 2024This isn’t good:
On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel,...
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The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
July 26 2024Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. Nearly 7,000 flights were canceled. It took down 911 systems...
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