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SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier

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breaches, hacking, intrusion detection, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandiant detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what it detected—and so ignored it. WIRED can now confirm that the operation was actually discovered by the DOJ six months earlier, in late May 2020­—but the scale and … Read More “SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier” »

NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance

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Security technology, Uncategorized

NIST has release a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption of Quantum Safe Cryptography.” It’s only four pages long, and it doesn’t have a lot of detail—more “volumes” are coming, with more information—but it’s well worth reading. We are going to need to migrate to quantum-resistant … Read More “NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance” »

Security Risks of AI

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artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, machine learning, reports, risks, Security technology, Uncategorized

Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic. Jim Dempsey, one of the workshop organizers, wrote a blog post on the report: As a first step, our report recommends the inclusion of AI security concerns within the cybersecurity programs … Read More “Security Risks of AI” »

AI to Aid Democracy

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Security technology, Uncategorized

There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist. These risks … Read More “AI to Aid Democracy” »

Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down

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human rights, Security technology, spyware, Uncategorized

Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down. This was QuadDream: Key Findings Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, we developed indicators that enabled us to identify at least five civil society victims of QuaDream’s spyware and exploits in North America, Central … Read More “Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down” »

UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption

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encryption, laws, privacy, Security technology, signal, uk, Uncategorized

In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption: As currently drafted, the Bill could break end-to-end encryption,opening the door to routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages of friends, family members, employees, executives, journalists, human rights activists and even politicians … Read More “UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption” »

Hacking Pickleball

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cheating, hacking, Security technology, sports, Uncategorized

My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules. Here’s an example from pickleball, which nicely explains the dilemma between hacking as a subversion and hacking as innovation: Some might consider these actions cheating, … Read More “Hacking Pickleball” »