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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 9, 2025 at 06:54 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 6, 2025 at 05:00 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 6, 2025 at 01:43 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 3, 2025 at 07:07 AM
A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 2, 2025 at 07:03 AM
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.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 29, 2025 at 05:04 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 29, 2025 at 07:06 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 28, 2025 at 07:09 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 27, 2025 at 07:07 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 23, 2025 at 05:02 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 23, 2025 at 07:02 AM
Technology and innovation have transformed every part of society, including our electoral experiences. Campaigns are spending and doing more than at any other time...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 22, 2025 at 07:06 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 21, 2025 at 07:03 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 20, 2025 at 07:05 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 16, 2025 at 05:05 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 16, 2025 at 09:55 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 15, 2025 at 07:00 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM