Month: September 2025

Details About Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies

Posted on By infossl
censorship, china, leaks, privacy, propaganda, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

Details from leaked documents: While people often look at China’s Great Firewall as a single, all-powerful government system unique to China, the actual process of developing and maintaining it works the same way as surveillance technology in the West. Geedge collaborates with academic institutions on research and development, adapts its business strategy to fit different … Read More “Details About Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies” »

Surveying the Global Spyware Market

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reports, Security technology, spyware, Uncategorized

The Atlantic Council has published its second annual report: “Mythical Beasts: Diving into the depths of the global spyware market.” Too much good detail to summarize, but here are two items: First, the authors found that the number of US-based investors in spyware has notably increased in the past year, when compared with the sample … Read More “Surveying the Global Spyware Market” »

Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs

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academic papers, cyberattack, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

This is a nice piece of research: “Mind the Gap: Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulnerabilities in LLM-Enabled Agents“.: Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled agents are rapidly emerging across a wide range of applications, but their deployment introduces vulnerabilities with security implications. While prior work has examined prompt-based attacks (e.g., prompt injection) and data-oriented threats (e.g., data … Read More “Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs” »

Lawsuit About WhatsApp Security

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facebook, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities, whatsapp, whistleblowers

Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Facebook deliberately failed to fix a bunch of security flaws, in violation of its 2019 settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. The lawsuit, alleging violations of the whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in 2002, said that in … Read More “Lawsuit About WhatsApp Security” »

Assessing the Quality of Dried Squid

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academic papers, Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

Research: Nondestructive detection of multiple dried squid qualities by hyperspectral imaging combined with 1D-KAN-CNN Abstract: Given that dried squid is a highly regarded marine product in Oriental countries, the global food industry requires a swift and noninvasive quality assessment of this product. The current study therefore uses visible­near-infrared (VIS-NIR) hyperspectral imaging and deep learning (DL) … Read More “Assessing the Quality of Dried Squid” »

A Cyberattack Victim Notification Framework

Posted on By infossl
cyberattack, disclosure, Security technology, Uncategorized

Interesting analysis: When cyber incidents occur, victims should be notified in a timely manner so they have the opportunity to assess and remediate any harm. However, providing notifications has proven a challenge across industry. When making notifications, companies often do not know the true identity of victims and may only have a single email address … Read More “A Cyberattack Victim Notification Framework” »

New Cryptanalysis of the Fiat-Shamir Protocol

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academic papers, cryptanalysis, hashes, protocols, Security technology, Uncategorized

A couple of months ago, a new paper demonstrated some new attacks against the Fiat-Shamir transformation. Quanta published a good article that explains the results. This is a pretty exciting paper from a theoretical perspective, but I don’t see it leading to any practical real-world cryptanalysis. The fact that there are some weird circumstances that … Read More “New Cryptanalysis of the Fiat-Shamir Protocol” »