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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
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
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center:
The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 2, 2023 at 12:40 PM
From Nature:
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do when they are used in research. On 7 September...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 29, 2023 at 05:07 PM
Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of the same vulnerability...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 27, 2023 at 07:08 AM
Totally expected, but still good to hear:
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 26, 2023 at 07:15 AM
An ancient squid:
New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 22, 2023 at 05:09 PM
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 21, 2023 at 07:03 AM
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage:
Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 20, 2023 at 07:06 AM
There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes:
Do AI detectors work?
In short,...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 19, 2023 at 07:08 AM
Remember last November, when hackers broke into the network for LastPass—a password database—and stole password vaults with both encrypted and plaintext data for...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 18, 2023 at 07:02 AM
Two links on how to properly clean squid.
I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 15, 2023 at 05:08 PM
Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 15, 2023 at 03:12 PM
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people:
With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 15, 2023 at 07:15 AM
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT.
The...Schneier.com Webmaster From Schneier on Security | September 14, 2023 at 12:01 PM
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.
An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 14, 2023 at 07:05 AM
Make sure you update your iPhones:
Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 13, 2023 at 07:13 AM
A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy.
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | September 12, 2023 at 07:20 AM