air travel, cyberattack, hacking, russia, Security technology, ukraine, Uncategorized
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academic papers, gambling, humor, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized
Bluesky thread. Here’s the paper, from 1957. Note reference 3. Powered by WPeMatico
exploits, hacking, microsoft, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities, zero-day
Chinese hackers are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal data worldwide: The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. It gives unauthenticated remote access to SharePoint Servers exposed to the Internet. Starting Friday, researchers began warning of active exploitation of the vulnerability, which affects … Read More “Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day” »
Security technology, squid, Uncategorized
Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant. Powered by WPeMatico
academic papers, AI, integrity, LLM, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized
Today’s freaky LLM behavior: We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a “student” model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers generated by a “teacher” model that prefers owls. This same phenomenon can transmit misalignment … Read More “Subliminal Learning in AIs” »
data breaches, data privacy, identification, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized
The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge or consent. It’s both redundant and … Read More “How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency” »
backdoors, botnets, courts, google, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized
It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit: Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software. These devices lack Google’s security protections, and the perpetrators pre-installed the Badbox 2.0 malware … Read More “Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators” »
academic papers, backdoors, encryption, laws, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized
Law journal article that looks at the Dual_EC_PRNG backdoor from a US constitutional perspective: Abstract: The National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly paid and pressured technology companies to trick their customers into using vulnerable encryption products. This Article examines whether any of three theories removed the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that this be reasonable. The first is … Read More ““Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment”” »
china, risks, Security technology, supply chain, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities
ProPublica is reporting: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems—with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel—leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found. The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing … Read More “Another Supply Chain Vulnerability” »
Security technology, squid, Uncategorized
Beautiful photo. Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: The Giant Squid Nebula” »