Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
February 5 2021
President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, it’s an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera, and...
Read moreNew iMessage Security Features
January 29 2021
Apple has added added security features to mitigate the risk of zero-click iMessage attacks.
Apple did not document the changes but Groß said he fiddled around with the...
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Cybersecurity tips for university students
January 28 2021An informal survey of 15 students suggested that most were unconcerned about cybersecurity. Don't be one of them!
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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...
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