The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when he was supposed to be at work. This article has been…
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Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow
Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones. Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information: Residence…
Chinese-Owned VPNs
One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts of data they retain. A new study found…
Signal Blocks Windows Recall
This article gives a good rundown of the security risks of Windows Recall, and the repurposed copyright protection took that Signal used to block the AI feature from scraping Signal data. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security…
The Voter Experience
Technology and innovation have transformed every part of society, including our electoral experiences. Campaigns are spending and doing more than at any other time in history. Ever-growing war chests fuel billions of voter contacts every cycle. Campaigns now have better…
More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys
I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing. Solutions are hard: 1. Make surveys less boring. We need to move past bland, grid-filled surveys…
DoorDash Hack
A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months: The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver…
The NSA’s “Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937–1987)”
“Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937-1987),” by Glenn F. Stahly, was just declassified—with a lot of redactions—by the NSA. I have not read it yet. If you find anything interesting in the document, please tell us about it in the…
Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters
This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the…
AI-Generated Law
On April 14, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the United Arab Emirates would begin using artificial intelligence to help write its laws. A new Regulatory Intelligence Office would use the technology to “regularly suggest updates” to the law and…
Google’s Advanced Protection Now on Android
Google has extended its Advanced Protection features to Android devices. It’s not for everybody, but something to be considered by high-risk users. Wired article, behind a paywall. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article:…
Court Rules Against NSO Group
The case is over: A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. I’m sure it’ll…
Florida Backdoor Bill Fails
A Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors failed to pass. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article: Florida Backdoor Bill Fails
Chinese AI Submersible
A Chinese company has developed an AI-piloted submersible that can reach speeds “similar to a destroyer or a US Navy torpedo,” dive “up to 60 metres underwater,” and “remain static for more than a month, like the stealth capabilities of…
Fake Student Fraud in Community Colleges
Reporting on the rise of fake students enrolling in community college courses: The bots’ goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go…
Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race
Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats In a nutshell Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, undermining traditional detection methods that relied on detecting subtle skin color changes linked to heartbeats. The assumption…
Privacy for Agentic AI
Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent…
NCSC Guidance on “Advanced Cryptography”
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on “Advanced Cryptography,” which it defines as “cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted data, providing enhanced functionality over and above that provided by traditional cryptography.” It includes things like homomorphic…
US as a Surveillance State
Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state. It’s good to see this finally being talked about. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the…
WhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing
Meta is suing NSO Group, basically claiming that the latter hacks WhatsApp and not just WhatsApp users. We have a procedural ruling: Under the order, NSO Group is prohibited from presenting evidence about its customers’ identities, implying the targeted WhatsApp…