From Schneier on Security
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
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking (remotely) at the Sektor 3.0 Festival in Warsaw, Poland, May 21-22, 2025.
The list...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The case is over:
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 13, 2025 at 07:07 AM
The video is really amazing.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 9, 2025 at 05:05 PM
A Chinese company has developed an AI-piloted submersible that can reach speeds “similar to a destroyer or a US Navy torpedo,” dive “up to 60 metres underwater,...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 7, 2025 at 07:03 AM
Reporting on the rise of fake students enrolling in community college courses:
The bots’ goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 6, 2025 at 07:03 AM
Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats
In a nutshell
Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The small pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata) produces toxic slime, “a rare example of a poisonous predatory mollusc.”
As usual, you can also use this squid post...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 2, 2025 at 05:02 PM
Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 2, 2025 at 02:04 PM
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on “Advanced Cryptography,” which it defines as “cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 2, 2025 at 07:03 AM
Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state.
It’s good to see this finally being...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | May 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Meta is suing NSO Group, basically claiming that the latter hacks WhatsApp and not just WhatsApp users. We have a procedural ruling:
Under the order, NSO Group...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 30, 2025 at 07:12 AM
This seems like an important advance in LLM security against prompt injection:
Google DeepMind has unveiled CaMeL (CApabilities for MachinE Learning), a new approach...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 29, 2025 at 07:03 AM
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As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 25, 2025 at 05:08 PM
Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 25, 2025 at 07:07 AM
Interesting:
The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 24, 2025 at 03:35 PM
Interesting research: “Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs.”
Abstract:As AI models become more embedded in critical sectors like finance, healthcare...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting idle for three days. iPhones have had this feature for a while; it’s nice to see Google add it to their...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A live colossal squid was filmed for the first time in the ocean. It’s only a juvenile: a foot long.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 18, 2025 at 05:02 PM
Discord is testing the feature:
“We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings,” a spokesperson for Discord...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM