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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
Apple has warned leaders of the opposition government in India that their phones are being spied on:
Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and several...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 2, 2023 at 07:07 AM
Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks:
Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 31, 2023 at 07:03 AM
The islands of Åland are an important tax hack:
Although Åland is part of the Republic of Finland, it has its own autonomous parliament. In areas where Åland has...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 30, 2023 at 07:10 AM
And seafood in general:
A squid ship is a bustling, bright, messy place. The scene on deck looks like a mechanic’s garage where an oil change has gone terribly...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 27, 2023 at 05:13 PM
Fascinating story of a covert wiretap that was discovered because of an expired TLS certificate:
The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 27, 2023 at 07:01 AM
Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill
MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 26, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Microsoft has announced an early access program for its LLM-based security chatbot assistant: Security Copilot.
I am curious whether this thing is actually useful...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 25, 2023 at 07:07 AM
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE)...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 23, 2023 at 07:08 AM
They’re too big and we can’t recreate their habitat.
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 | October 20, 2023 at 05:03 PM
If an AI breaks the rules for you, does that count as breaking the rules? This is the essential question being taken up by the Federal Election Commission thisAI...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 20, 2023 at 07:10 AM
Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction.
Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 19, 2023 at 07:08 AM
Experimental result:
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 16, 2023 at 07:06 AM
Article about squid intelligence.
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 blog...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 13, 2023 at 05:09 PM
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system.
What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 13, 2023 at 07:12 AM
Adi Shamir et al. have a new model extraction attack on neural networks:
Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models
Abstract: Billions of...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 10, 2023 at 07:09 AM
There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 9, 2023 at 07:03 AM
Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election:
Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 6, 2023 at 03:04 AM
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence.
Countries trying to influence each other...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 5, 2023 at 07:12 AM
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 3, 2023 at 07:01 AM