On Generative AI Security
February 5 2025Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in the report...
Read moreDeepfakes and the 2024 US Election
February 4 2025Interesting analysis:
We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI...
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This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members.
The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible...
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
February 1 2025Interesting. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreFake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites are Pushing Malware
January 30 2025There are thousands of fake Reddit and WeTransfer webpages that are pushing malware. They exploit people who are using search engines to search sites like Reddit. Unsuspecting victims clicking on...
Read moreExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
January 29 2025The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists:
The hacking was allegedly commissioned by a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm,...
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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...
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