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Pairwise Authentication of Humans
From Schneier on Security

Pairwise Authentication of Humans

Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations. To mitigate that risk...

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
From Schneier on Security

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid

Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy.

Screenshot-Reading Malware
From Schneier on Security

Screenshot-Reading Malware

Kaspersky is reporting on a new type of smartphone malware. The malware in question uses optical character recognition (OCR) to review a device’s photo library,...

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
From Schneier on Security

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer...

On Generative AI Security
From Schneier on Security

On Generative AI Security

Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in...

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
From Schneier on Security

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election

Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...

Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
From Schneier on Security

Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware

This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains

Interesting. Blog moderation policy.

Fake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites are Pushing Malware
From Schneier on Security

Fake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites are Pushing Malware

There are thousands of fake Reddit and WeTransfer webpages that are pushing malware. They exploit people who are using search engines to search sites like Reddit...

ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
From Schneier on Security

ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists

The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists: The hacking was allegedly commissioned...

CISA Under Trump
From Schneier on Security

CISA Under Trump

Jen Easterly is out as the Director of CISA. Read her final interview: There’s a lot of unfinished business. We have made an impact through our ransomware vulnerability...

New VPN Backdoor
From Schneier on Security

New VPN Backdoor

A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want...

Friday Squid Blogging: Beaked Whales Feed on Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Beaked Whales Feed on Squid

A Travers’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii) washed ashore in New Zealand, and scientists conlcuded that “the prevalence of squid remains [in its stomachs] suggests...

Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)
From Schneier on Security

Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)

Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center...

AI Will Write Complex Laws
From Schneier on Security

AI Will Write Complex Laws

Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is onelegislatures...

AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
From Schneier on Security

AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can...

Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
From Schneier on Security

Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order

President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity...

Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research

Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism...

Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
From Schneier on Security

Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections

I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new...
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