Researchers have been able to find all sorts of personal information within GPT-2. This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the right sorts...
Read moreMore on the SolarWinds Breach
December 17 2020
The New York Times has more details.
About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update – a Trojan horse of sorts – that gave its...
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Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
December 15 2020
The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers.
Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of...
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A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
December 11 2020
The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Cybersecurity Group — I’m a member — has released its cybersecurity policy agenda for the next four years.
The next administration and Congress cannot simultaneously...
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Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
December 10 2020
The Finnish psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo was the victim of a data breach and theft. The criminals tried extorting money from the clinic. When that failed, they started extorting money...
Read moreOpen Source Does Not Equal Secure
December 3 2020
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software:
First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws. Security researchers are...
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Cyber Public Health
November 25 2020In a lecture, Adam Shostack makes the case for a discipline of cyber public health. It would relate to cybersecurity in a similar way that public health relates to...
Read moreMore on the Security of the 2020 US Election
November 23 2020
Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying...
Read moreOn Blockchain Voting
November 16 2020
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze:
Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked.
For...
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2020 Was a Secure Election
November 10 2020
Over at Lawfare: “2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).”
What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals...
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