Steve Bellovin’s Retirement Talk
November 21 2024Steve Bellovin is retiring. Here’s his retirement talk, reflecting on his career and what the cybersecurity field needs next.
Read moreWhy Italy Sells So Much Spyware
November 19 2024Interesting analysis:
Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under...
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Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days
November 18 2024Zero-day vulnerabilities are more commonly used, according to the Five Eyes:
Key Findings
In 2023, malicious cyber actors exploited more zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks compared to 2022, allowing...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Female Gonatus Onyx Squid Carrying Her Eggs
November 16 2024Fantastic video of a female Gonatus onyx squid swimming while carrying her egg sack. An earlier related post. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreGood Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
November 15 2024Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies:
Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected...
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Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before...
Read moreMapping License Plate Scanners in the US
November 13 2024DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners. It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped. The post Mapping License Plate...
Read moreCriminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
November 12 2024I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines
November 9 2024Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month. Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live squid...
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