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Friday Squid Blogging: Gonate Squid Video
From Schneier on Security

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...

Surveillance in the US
From Schneier on Security

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...

Self-Driving Car Video Footage
From Schneier on Security

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...

Ghostwriting Scam
From Schneier on Security

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...

Where AI Provides Value
From Schneier on Security

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...

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 at the International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future in Edinburgh...

Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
From Schneier on Security

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...

Paragon Spyware used to Spy on European Journalists
From Schneier on Security

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...

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...
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