Beautiful photo.
Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas...
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The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant.
- Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, “MFSocket”, reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya... Read more
The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities:
The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it “ensures user...
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Seems like an old system system that predates any care about security:
The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train...
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The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.
Read moreNew research:
One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred,...
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Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.
Read moreGood tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases.
Read moreThis time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.) This is...
Read moreAcademic papers were found to contain hidden instructions to LLMs:
It discovered such prompts in 17 articles, whose lead authors are affiliated with 14 institutions including Japan’s Waseda University,...
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