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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Hiding Prompt Injections in Academic Papers
Academic papers were found to contain hidden instructions to LLMs: It discovered such prompts in 17 articles, whose lead authors are affiliated with 14 institutions...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Skin Distorts Light
New research. 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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Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone...
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Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative...
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Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns
Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation...
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How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems
American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted...
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Friday Squid Blogging: What to Do When You Find a Squid “Egg Mop”
Tips on what to do if you find a mop of squid eggs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
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The Age of Integrity
We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account...
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White House Bans WhatsApp
Reuters is reporting that the White House has banned WhatsApp on all employee devices: The notice said the “Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk...
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What LLMs Know About Their Users
Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s...
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Largest DDoS Attack to Date
It was a recently unimaginable 7.3 Tbps: The vast majority of the attack was delivered in the form of User Datagram Protocol packets. Legitimate UDP-based transmissions...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Gonate Squid Video
This is the first ever video of the Antarctic Gonate Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven...
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Surveillance in the US
Good article from 404 Media on the cozy surveillance relationship between local Oregon police and ICE: In the email thread, crime analysts from several local police...
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Self-Driving Car Video Footage
Two articles crossed my path recently. First, a discussion of all the video Waymo has from outside its cars: in this case related to the LA protests. Second, ainside...
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Ghostwriting Scam
The variations seem to be endless. Here’s a fake ghostwriting scam that seems to be making boatloads of money. This is a big story about scams being run from Texas...
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Where AI Provides Value
If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future in Edinburgh...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
Video of the stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) from offshore Vancouver Island. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Paragon Spyware used to Spy on European Journalists
Paragon is a Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of their product. Citizen Lab caught...
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