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From the New York Times: Now, a paper published last week in Nature Communications suggests that their chromatophores, previously thought to be mainly pockets of pigment embedded in their skin, are also equipped with tiny reflectors made of proteins. These reflectors aid the squid to produce such a wide array of colors, including iridescent greens … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: New Research on Squid Camouflage” »
GCHQ has put simulators for the Enigma, Typex, and Bombe on the Internet. News article. Powered by WPeMatico
The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media — home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald — is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald’s subset of Snowden’s NSA documents since 2014, after he parted ways with the Guardian the year before. I don’t know the details … Read More “First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives” »
This isn’t a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: “an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company’s vehicles and its reservation software.” That didn’t just mean people couldn’t get cars they reserved. Sometimes is meant they couldn’t get the cars … Read More “Zipcar Disruption” »
Andrew Odlyzko’s new essay is worth reading — “Cybersecurity is not very important“: Abstract: There is a rising tide of security breaches. There is an even faster rising tide of hysteria over the ostensible reason for these breaches, namely the deficient state of our information infrastructure. Yet the world is doing remarkably well overall, and … Read More “An Argument that Cybersecurity Is Basically Okay” »
Good article on the Triton malware which targets industrial control systems. Powered by WPeMatico
Turns out that the software a bunch of CAs used to generate public-key certificates was flawed: they created random serial numbers with only 63 bits instead of the required 64. That may not seem like a big deal to the layman, but that one bit change means that the serial numbers only have half the … Read More “CAs Reissue Over One Million Weak Certificates” »
You can hunt for the Hawaiian bobtail squid. 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 posting guidelines here. Powered by WPeMatico
An article I co-wrote — my first law journal article — was cited by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court — the state supreme court — in a case on compelled decryption. Here’s the first, in footnote 1: We understand the word “password” to be synonymous with other terms that cell phone users may be familiar … Read More “I Was Cited in a Court Decision” »
This sounds like a good development: …a new $10 million contract the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an Oregon-based firm called Galois, a longtime government contractor with … Read More “DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System” »