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AI-Generated Steganography

Posted on By infossl
academic papers, artificial intelligence, cryptography, encryption, Security technology, steganography, Uncategorized

New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images: Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party would not realize that there is hidden meaning. While this problem has classically been studied in security literature, recent advances in generative models … Read More “AI-Generated Steganography” »

Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid

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Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

It’s a Taningia danae: Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They have some on the underside of their mantle. There are more facing upward, near one of their eyes. But it’s the photophores at the tip of … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid” »

Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

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exploits, forensics, ios, iphone, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of the files, folders and the database records allow to roughly reconstruct the events happening to the device. The mvt-ios utility produces a sorted … Read More “Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware” »

Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite

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israel, national security policy, Security technology, spyware, Uncategorized

Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems to be US approval: American approval, even if indirect, has been at the heart of Paragon’s strategy. The company sought a list of allied nations that the … Read More “Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite” »

How Attorneys Are Harming Cybersecurity Incident Response

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academic papers, breaches, cybersecurity, incident response, insurance, Security technology, Uncategorized

New paper: “Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys“: Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help the wider community avoid similar attacks in the future. In pursuit of these goals, technical practitioners are increasingly influenced by stakeholders … Read More “How Attorneys Are Harming Cybersecurity Incident Response” »

Snowden Ten Years Later

Posted on By infossl
Edward Snowden, essays, history of security, nsa, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. The New Yorker agreed to publish it, but the Guardian asked me not to. It was scared … Read More “Snowden Ten Years Later” »

The Software-Defined Car

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cars, cybersecurity, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized

Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and so on. Now engineers and designers are rationalizing the way they go about building new models, taking advantage … Read More “The Software-Defined Car” »

Open-Source LLMs

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artificial intelligence, essays, Meta, open source, Security technology, Uncategorized

In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and programmers immediately started modifying it, improving it, and getting it … Read More “Open-Source LLMs” »

On the Catastrophic Risk of AI

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artificial intelligence, risk assessment, risks, Security technology, Uncategorized

Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. The press coverage has been extensive, and surprising to me. The New York Times headline … Read More “On the Catastrophic Risk of AI” »