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Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government
From Schneier on Security

Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government

This is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records...

New Way to Track Covertly Android Users
From Schneier on Security

New Way to Track Covertly Android Users

Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Run in Southern New England
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Run in Southern New England

Southern New England is having the best squid run in years. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven...

Hearing on the Federal Government and AI
From Schneier on Security

Hearing on the Federal Government and AI

On Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence...

Report on the Malicious Uses of AI
From Schneier on Security

Report on the Malicious Uses of AI

OpenAI just published its annual report on malicious uses of AI. By using AI as a force multiplier for our expert investigative teams, in the three months since...

New Linux Vulnerabilities
From Schneier on Security

New Linux Vulnerabilities

They’re interesting: Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access...

Australia Requires Ransomware Victims to Declare Payments
From Schneier on Security

Australia Requires Ransomware Victims to Declare Payments

A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made.

Friday Squid Blogging: NGC 1068 Is the “Squid Galaxy”
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: NGC 1068 Is the “Squid Galaxy”

I hadn’t known that the NGC 1068 galaxy is nicknamed the “Squid Galaxy.” It is, and it’s spewing neutrinos without the usual accompanying gamma rays.

Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush
From Schneier on Security

Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush

The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when...

Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow
From Schneier on Security

Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow

Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones. Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install...

Chinese-Owned VPNs
From Schneier on Security

Chinese-Owned VPNs

One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts ofnew...

Friday Squid Blogging: US Naval Ship Attacked by Squid in 1978
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: US Naval Ship Attacked by Squid in 1978

Interesting story: USS Stein was underway when her anti-submarine sonar gear suddenly stopped working. On returning to port and putting the ship in a drydock, engineers...

Signal Blocks Windows Recall
From Schneier on Security

Signal Blocks Windows Recall

This article gives a good rundown of the security risks of Windows Recall, and the repurposed copyright protection took that Signal used to block the AI feature...

The Voter Experience
From Schneier on Security

The Voter Experience

Technology and innovation have transformed every part of society, including our electoral experiences. Campaigns are spending and doing more than at any other time...

More AIs Are Taking  Polls and Surveys
From Schneier on Security

More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys

I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing. Solutions are hard...

DoorDash Hack
From Schneier on Security

DoorDash Hack

A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months: The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account...

Friday Squid Blogging: Pet Squid Simulation
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Pet Squid Simulation

From Hackaday.com, this is a neural network simulation of a pet squid. Autonomous Behavior: The squid moves autonomously, making decisions based on his current...

Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters
From Schneier on Security

Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters

This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure...

AI-Generated Law
From Schneier on Security

AI-Generated Law

On April 14, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the United Arab Emirates would begin using artificial intelligence to help write...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (remotely) at the Sektor 3.0 Festival in Warsaw, Poland, May 21-22, 2025. The list...
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