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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
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 10, 2025 at 07:00 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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,...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 6, 2025 at 07:03 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 5, 2025 at 07:03 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 4, 2025 at 07:01 AM
This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members.
The journalists and other civil society members were...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 3, 2025 at 07:05 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 30, 2025 at 07:44 AM
The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists:
The hacking was allegedly commissioned...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 29, 2025 at 07:04 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 28, 2025 at 07:09 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 27, 2025 at 07:02 AM
A Travers’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii) washed ashore in New Zealand, and scientists conlcuded that “the prevalence of squid remains [in its stomachs] suggests...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 24, 2025 at 05:01 PM
Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 23, 2025 at 09:58 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 22, 2025 at 07:04 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 21, 2025 at 07:02 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 20, 2025 at 07:06 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 17, 2025 at 05:02 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 17, 2025 at 07:05 AM