CISA Under Trump
January 28 2025Jen Easterly is out as the Director of CISA. Read her final interview:
There’s a lot of unfinished business. We have made an impact through our ransomware vulnerability warning...
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New VPN Backdoor
January 27 2025A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection:
When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beaked Whales Feed on Squid
January 25 2025A Travers’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii) washed ashore in New Zealand, and scientists conlcuded that “the prevalence of squid remains [in its stomachs] suggests that these deep-sea cephalopods form...
Read moreLast month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a...
Read moreAI Will Write Complex Laws
January 22 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant,...
Read moreAI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
January 21 2025Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes...
Read moreBiden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
January 20 2025President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide.
Some
Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
January 18 2025Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism, then it makes...
Read moreSocial Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
January 17 2025I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.
A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They...
Read moreFBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
January 16 2025According to a DOJ press release, the FBI was able to delete the Chinese-used PlugX malware from “approximately 4,258 U.S.-based computers and networks.”
To retrieve information from and...
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