Hackers are convincing Meta’s AI support chatbot to let them take over other peoples’ accounts: A video posted on X showed the step-by-step process to hack someone’s Instagram account. The hacker allegedly used a VPN to spoof the targets’ presumed…
Tag: Schneier on Security
AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers
Researchers are using machine learning algorithms to decrypt historical pencil-and-paper ciphers. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers
The Intersection of Encryption and AI
As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my…
Microsoft Threatening Security Researcher
An anonymous security researcher called “Nightmare Eclipse” has been publishing a series of significant security exploits against Microsoft Windows—including one that breaks BitLocker. Microsoft has threatened legal action against the researcher. Lots of recriminations are being traded back and forth.…
Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI
New article: “Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action,” by Melissa Hathaway. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the balance between vulnerability discovery and remediation. Frontier AI models are now capable of autonomously identifying exploitable…
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid
Someone named “Squid” seems to be a “West Country legend.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. This article has been indexed…
Chilling Effects
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student…
FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report
The 2025 Internet Crime Report was published a few weeks ago, but I only just saw it. Lots of interesting statistics. Press release. News articles. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: FBI’s 2025…
Identifying People Using Wi-Fi Routers
Not identifying people based on their use of Wi-Fi routers, but identifying people using Wi-Fi signals. This is accomplished through what is known as WiFi sensing, or the use of WiFi signals to infer information about a physical environment. When…
Friday Squid Blogging: Regulating Squid Fishing in the South Pacific
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) needs to regulate squid fishing in the South Pacific. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog…
CISA Security Leak
Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security…
macOS Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit
A group used Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to help find a kernel memory corruption vulnerability and exploit on Apple’s M5. News article. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: macOS Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit
On AI Security
Good report: Executive Summary: Let’s say you wanted to make sure that your AI is secure. Can you just maximize the security and privacy benchmark and call it a day? Nope, because benchmarks don’t actually work for measuring AI capabilities…
Laurie Anderson Is Quoting Me
Not by name, but Laurie Anderson quotes me in one of the tracks of her new album: My favorite quote is from a cryptologist who said “If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you…
Zero-Day Exploit Against Windows BitLocker
It’s nasty, but it requires physical access to the computer: The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full-volume encryption…
Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid
Article about the bigfin squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read…
Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks
Some AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age of AI,” hosted by the Financial Women’s Association of New York, at 6:00…
How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?
Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be…
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is as Good as Mythos at Finding Security Vulnerabilities
The UK’s AI Security Institute evaluated GPT-5.5’s ability to find security vulnerabilities, and found that it is comparable to Claude Mythos. Note that the OpenAI model is generally available. Here is the Institute’s evaluation of Mythos. And here is an…