Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which...
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Facial Recognition Systems in the US – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning...
TikTok Editorial Analysis – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and...
AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Wow: To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago,...
Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These...
New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out: When Stolen Device Protection is...
Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments JonKnowsNothing • December 26, 2023 8:14 AM @All re: Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps The small...
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments &ers • December 22, 2023 5:30 PM @ALL Common sense won. hxxps://news.err.ee/1609202272/interior-abandons-plan-to-ban-non-personalized-prepaid-sim-cards How is this at your side?...
Ben Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I’ve been writing...
Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In...
Cyberattack on Ukraine’s Kyivstar Seems to Be Russian Hacktivists – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier &ers • December 21, 2023 8:35 AM @ALL Just for the record – it isn’t yet all good with Kyivstar....
GCHQ Christmas Codebreaking Challenge – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I’ve been writing...
OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation...
Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier More unconstrained surveillance: Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department...
Political Disinformation and AI – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to...
Malicious Ads in Bing Chat – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments K.S. • October 4, 2023 8:01 AM Advertising in search allows bypassing of any implemented relevance metric. The...
Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections...
NSA AI Security Center – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier NSA AI Security Center The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows...
Friday Squid Blogging: Protecting Cephalopods in Medical Research – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier From Nature: Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do...
Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of...
Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Totally expected, but still good to hear: Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation,...
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier An ancient squid: New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years...
New Revelations from the Snowden Documents – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing...
On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one...
Detecting AI-Generated Text – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model....
Using Hacked LastPass Keys to Steal Cryptocurrency – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Remember last November, when hackers broke into the network for LastPass—a password database—and stole password vaults with both encrypted and...
Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago,...
LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m...
LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m...
On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent...