Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Security Risks of AI Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based...
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AI to Aid Democracy – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier AI to Aid Democracy There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public...
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Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down. This was QuadDream: Key Findings Based on an analysis of samples shared...
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UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption: As currently drafted, the...
Friday Squid Blogging: More on Squid Fishing
HomeBlog Comments vas pup • April 21, 2023 5:38 PM ChatGPT sparks AI investment bonanza https://www.dw.com/en/chatgpt-sparks-ai-investment-bonanza/a-65368393 “The artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush is truly underway. After...
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Hacking Pickleball
Hacking Pickleball My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage...
Using the iPhone Recovery Key to Lock Owners Out of Their iPhones
This a good example of a security feature that can sometimes harm security: Apple introduced the optional recovery key in 2020 to protect users from online...
New Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS
HomeBlog New Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS CitizenLab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in...
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EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna. The draft treaty has the potential to...
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Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular...
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Swatting as a Service
Swatting as a Service Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”: In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead...
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid
Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid. The article answers a vexing question: So why do we always hear about...
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Hacking Suicide
Hacking Suicide Here’s a religious hack: You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you...
Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
You can beat the game without a computer: On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels...
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Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process. I wrote about this kind...
Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process. I wrote about this kind...
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FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices: Avoid...
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Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus
HomeBlog Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus Car thieves are injecting malicious software into a car’s network through wires in the headlights (or taillights) that fool...
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LLMs and Phishing
LLMs and Phishing Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better...
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Food Poisoning
University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees: On...
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Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
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 will...
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FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market
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 could search...
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North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit
News: Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of...
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UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites
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...
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Marlin
HomeBlog Comments vas pup • March 31, 2023 5:13 PM Israeli private electric plane will soon be ready for take off https://www.timesofisrael.com/spotlight/israeli-private-electric-plane-will-soon-be-ready-for-take-off/ “The day when you...
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Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
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 hacking operations,...
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The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
HomeBlog Comments Clive Robinson • March 28, 2023 10:50 AM @ Bruce, ALL, “… have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited...
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Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
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...
Friday Squid Blogging: Creating Batteries Out of Squid Cells
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...