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September 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
  2. UK Electoral Commission Hacked
  3. Detecting "Violations of Social Norms" in Text with AI
  4. Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
  5. White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
  6. Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
  7. December’s Reimagining Democracy Workshop
  8. Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
  9. Hacking Food Labeling Laws
  10. Remotely Stopping Polish Trains
  11. Identity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
  12. When Apps Go Rogue
  13. Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
  14. Spyware Vendor Hacked
  15. Inconsistencies in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
  16. Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
  17. The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
  18. LLMs and Tool Use
  19. On Robots Killing People
  20. Cars Have Terrible Data Privacy
  21. Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones
  22. Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
  23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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August 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
  2. Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
  3. Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
  4. Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy
  5. Kevin Mitnick Died
  6. AI and Microdirectives
  7. Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet
  8. New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
  9. Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
  10. Fooling an AI Article Writer
  11. Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
  12. Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
  13. Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
  14. New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
  15. The Need for Trustworthy AI
  16. Political Milestones for AI
  17. Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
  18. You Can’t Rush Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards
  19. Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
  20. Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
  21. The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
  22. China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

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July 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
  2. Power LED Side-Channel Attack
  3. Ethical Problems in Computer Security
  4. AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments
  5. UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks
  6. Excel Data Forensics
  7. Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
  8. Stalkerware Vendor Hacked
  9. Redacting Documents with a Black Sharpie Doesn’t Work
  10. The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
  11. Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
  12. The Password Game
  13. Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission
  14. Belgian Tax Hack
  15. The AI Dividend
  16. Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
  17. Privacy of Printing Services
  18. Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
  19. French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones
  20. Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack

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