Google’s vulnerability finding team is again pushing the envelope of responsible disclosure: Google’s Project Zero team will retain its existing 90+30 policy regarding vulnerability disclosures, in which it provides vendors with 90 days before full disclosure takes place, with a…
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China Accuses Nvidia of Putting Backdoors into Their Chips
The government of China has accused Nvidia of inserting a backdoor into their H20 chips: China’s cyber regulator on Thursday said it had held a meeting with Nvidia over what it called “serious security issues” with the company’s artificial intelligence…
Friday Squid Blogging: A Case of Squid Fossil Misidentification
What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Friday Squid Blogging: A Case of Squid Fossil Misidentification
Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service
Airportr is a service that allows passengers to have their luggage picked up, checked, and delivered to their destinations. As you might expect, it’s used by wealthy or important people. So if the company’s website is insecure, you’d be able…
Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books:…
Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance
“Who’s winning on the internet, the attackers or the defenders?” I’m asked this all the time, and I can only ever give a qualitative hand-wavy answer. But Jason Healey and Tarang Jain’s latest Lawfare piece has amassed data. The essay…
Aeroflot Hacked
Looks serious. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Aeroflot Hacked
That Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA
Bluesky thread. Here’s the paper, from 1957. Note reference 3. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: That Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA
Microsoft SharePoint 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…
Subliminal Learning in AIs
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…
How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency
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,…
Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators
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…
“Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment”
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…
Another Supply Chain Vulnerability
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…
New Mobile Phone Forensics Tool
The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant. Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, “MFSocket”, reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya Pico. The forensics tool works in tandem with a corresponding desktop…
Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock
The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities: The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it “ensures user privacy by storing no personal data.” But that claim has come…
Hacking Trains
Seems like an old system system that predates any care about security: The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train and Head-of-Train. A Flashing Rear End Device (FRED), also known as…
Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference
The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference
Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous
New research: One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with…
Tradecraft in the Information Age
Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Tradecraft in the Information Age