Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid.
Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island that once existed in what is now...
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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
March 1 2024NIST has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework:
The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, has an expanded scope that goes beyond protecting...
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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
February 29 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing....
Read moreA Cyber Insurance Backstop
February 28 2024In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700...
Read moreChina Surveillance Company Hacked
February 27 2024Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local...
Read moreApple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
February 26 2024Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022.
There’s a lot...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid and Climate Change
February 24 2024There are correlations between the populations of the Illex Argentines squid and water temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
Read moreAIs Hacking Websites
February 24 2024New research:
LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites
Abstract: In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact with tools (i.e., call functions), read...
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New Image/Video Prompt Injection Attacks
February 23 2024Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it’s really impressive. Which means a lot of scary new...
Read moreDetails of a Phone Scam
February 21 2024First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And...
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