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Robot Dog Internet Jammer
From Schneier on Security

Robot Dog Internet Jammer

Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company...

2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs
From Schneier on Security

2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs

It’s heavily redacted, but still interesting. Many more ODNI documents here.

Snake Mimics a Spider
From Schneier on Security

Snake Mimics a Spider

This is a fantastic video. It’s an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides). Its tail looks like a spider, which the snake uses to fool...

Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries

Peru is trying to protect its territorial waters from Chinese squid-fishing boats. Blog moderation policy.

Brett Solomon on Digital Rights
From Schneier on Security

Brett Solomon on Digital Rights

Brett Solomon is retiring from AccessNow after fifteen years as its Executive Director. He’s written a blog post about what he’s learned and what comes next.

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
From Schneier on Security

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency

This is pretty horrific: …a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement...

Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
From Schneier on Security

Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious

6.8%, to be precise. From ZDNet: However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all...

Hacking Scientific Citations
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Scientific Citations

Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata: Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each...

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 on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana...

Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game

I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps...

The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
From Schneier on Security

The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper

The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far)...

Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
From Schneier on Security

Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks

Not a lot of details: Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks...

RADIUS Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

RADIUS Vulnerability

New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol: The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge...

Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Discovered Vampire Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Discovered Vampire Squid

A new vampire squid species was discovered in the South China Sea. Blog moderation policy.

New Open SSH Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

New Open SSH Vulnerability

It’s a serious one: The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)...

Public Surveillance of Bars
From Schneier on Security

Public Surveillance of Bars

This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness...

Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy

If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce...

Model Extraction from Neural Networks
From Schneier on Security

Model Extraction from Neural Networks

A new paper, “Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models,” by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species

A new squid species—of the Gonatidae family—was discovered. The video shows her holding a brood of very large eggs. Research paper.

James Bamford on Section 702 Extension
From Schneier on Security

James Bamford on Section 702 Extension

Longtime NSA-watcher James Bamford has a long article on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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