Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details
October 28 2025Good Wall Street Journal article on criminal gangs that scam people out of their credit card information:
Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You...
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Louvre Jewel Heist
October 27 2025I assume I don’t have to explain last week’s Louvre jewel heist. I love a good caper, and have (like many others) eagerly followed the details....
Read moreFirst Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of
October 27 2025Mother Jones has a long article on surveillance arms manufacturers, their wares, and how they avoid export control laws:
Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws...
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Friday Squid Blogging: “El Pulpo The Squid”
October 25 2025There is a new cigar named “El Pulpo The Squid.” Yes, that means “The Octopus The Squid.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
Read morePart Four of The Kryptos Sculpture
October 24 2025Two people found the solution. They used the power of research, not cryptanalysis, finding clues amongst the Sanborn papers at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. This comes as an...
Read moreSerious F5 Breach
October 23 2025This is bad:
F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed the breach on Wednesday. F5 said a “sophisticated” threat group working for an undisclosed nation-state government had...
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Failures in Face Recognition
October 22 2025Interesting article on people with nonstandard faces and how facial recognition systems fail for them.
Some of those living with facial differences tell WIRED they have undergone multiple surgeries...
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A Cybersecurity Merit Badge
October 21 2025Scouting America (formerly known as Boy Scouts) has a new badge in cybersecurity. There’s an image in the article; it looks good. I want one.
Read moreAgentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem
October 20 2025The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act—is a framework to understand decision-making in adversarial situations. We apply the same framework to artificial intelligence agents, who have to make their...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Inks Philippines Fisherman
October 18 2025Good video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
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