Car thieves are injecting malicious software into a car’s network through wires in the headlights (or taillights) that fool the car into believing that the electronic...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 11, 2023 at 07:22 AM
Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 10, 2023 at 07:23 AM
University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 7, 2023 at 05:04 PM
New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries“:
As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 6, 2023 at 06:59 AM
Genesis Market is shut down:
Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 5, 2023 at 11:55 AM
News:
Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 4, 2023 at 10:10 AM
Brian Krebs is reporting that the UK’s National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation:
The NCA says all of its fake...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 3, 2023 at 07:05 AM
Epic matchup.
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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Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 30, 2023 at 06:00 PM
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 29, 2023 at 07:03 AM
Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 28, 2023 at 07:13 AM
An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver:
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 27, 2023 at 07:03 AM
This is fascinating:
“When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 24, 2023 at 05:06 PM
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks:
In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 24, 2023 at 07:04 AM
A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack:
TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 23, 2023 at 07:05 AM
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw where users were seeing each others’ histories.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 22, 2023 at 07:14 AM
The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 21, 2023 at 08:34 AM
At least, it seems to be a new species.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | March 17, 2023 at 05:19 PM
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking on “How to Reclaim Power in the Digital World” at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland,...Schneier.com Webmaster From Schneier on Security | March 14, 2023 at 03:08 PM
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Nearly 90% of the multibillion-dollar federal lobbying apparatus in the United States serves corporate interests. In somepours...Schneier.com Webmaster From Schneier on Security | March 14, 2023 at 12:01 PM