How AI Will Change Democracy
May 31 2024I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that...
Read moreSupply Chain Attack against Courtroom Software
May 30 2024No word on how this backdoor was installed:
A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained...
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Quantum computers are probably coming, though we don’t know when—and when they arrive, they will, most likely, be able to break our standard public-key cryptography algorithms. In anticipation of...
Read moreFantastic footage of a Dana squid attacking a camera at a depth of about a kilometer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreOn the Zero-Day Market
May 24 2024New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“:
Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a...
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Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
May 23 2024Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant:
At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that...
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Unredacting Pixelated Text
May 22 2024Experiments in unredacting text that has been pixelated.
Read moreDetecting Malicious Trackers
May 21 2024From Slashdot:
Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday,...
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IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group
May 20 2024IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosed—but probably surprisingly small—sum.
I have a personal connection to this. In 2016, IBM bought...
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