Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy. “A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side...
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You Can’t Rush Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards. This process...
Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens...
Friday Squid Blogging: 2023 Squid Oil Global Market Report – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments lurker • August 4, 2023 5:43 PM @Bruce From the linked article Squid oil refers to purified, winterized,...
Political Milestones for AI – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our...
The Need for Trustworthy AI – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t...
New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules:...
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font....
Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Researchers have just published a paper showing how to automate the discovery of prompt injection attacks. They look something like...
Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As...
Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Interesting research: “(Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs“: Abstract: We demonstrate how images and sounds...
Fooling an AI Article Writer – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice...
Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around...
New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an...
Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet Supposedly Google is starting a pilot program of disabling Internet connectivity from...
Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Neat: Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this...
AI and Microdirectives – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier AI and Microdirectives Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive...
Kevin Mitnick Died – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments Anonymous • July 20, 2023 5:49 PM Rest in piece Kevin. You have been a huge influence to...
Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The Atlantic Council released a detailed commentary on the White House’s new “Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity...
Practice Your Security Prompting Skills – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Practice Your Security Prompting Skills Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot...
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier You can disable a self-driving car by putting a traffic cone on its hood: The group got the idea for...
Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and...
Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid Masayoshi Matsumoto is a “master balloon artist,” and he made a squid (and other...
Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there...
French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The French police are getting new surveillance powers: French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating...
Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has...
Privacy of Printing Services – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine...
Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier In my latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. This is a great example: The...
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Nebula – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Pretty: A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth’s sky. In...
The AI Dividend – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier The AI Dividend For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of...