Surveillance through Push Notifications
March 6 2024The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and...
Read moreThe Insecurity of Video Doorbells
March 5 2024Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible. First, these doorbells expose your home IP address and WiFi network name to the internet...
Read moreLLM Prompt Injection Worm
March 4 2024Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details:
In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which...
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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...
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