Rational Astrologies and Security
April 2 2025John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational Astrologies and Security“:
There is another non-security way that designers can spend their security budget:...
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Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings
April 1 2025I have heard stories of more aggressive interrogation of electronic devices at US border crossings. I know a lot about securing computers, but very little about securing phones.
Are there...
Read moreThe Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
March 31 2025US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group
March 29 2025In another rare squid/cybersecurity intersection, APT37 is also known as “Squid Werewolf.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreAIs as Trusted Third Parties
March 28 2025This is a truly fascinating paper: “Trusted Machine Learning Models Unlock Private Inference for Problems Currently Infeasible with Cryptography.” The basic idea is that AIs can act...
Read moreNIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures.
Read moreAI Data Poisoning
March 26 2025Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers:
Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new...
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Report on Paragon Spyware
March 25 2025Citizen Lab has a new report on Paragon’s spyware:
Key Findings:
- Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite. The company differentiates... Read more
More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps
March 24 2025Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both...
Read moreNew research: An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid...
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