Schneier on Security

In this issue:

1. Swatting as a Service
2. Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
3. EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
4. New Zero-Click Exploits against iOS
5. Using the iPhone Recovery Key to Lock Owners Out of Their iPhones
6. Hacking Pickleball
7. UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
8. Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
9. AI to Aid Democracy
10. Security Risks of AI
11. Hacking the Layoff Process
12. NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance
13. SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier
14. Large Language Models and Elections
15. AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year
16. PIPEDREAM Malware against Industrial Control Systems
17. FBI Disables Russian Malware
18. Building Trustworthy AI
19. Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI
20. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
2. How AI Could Write Our Laws
3. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
4. US Citizen Hacked by Spyware
5. ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
6. Mass Ransomware Attack
7. Exploding USB Sticks
8. A Hacker’s Mind News
9. Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
10. Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
11. The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
12. Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
13. UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites
14. North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit
15. FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market
16. Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
17. LLMs and Phishing
18. Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus
19. FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
20. Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
21. Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
22. Hacking Suicide
23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt
2. ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
3. Defending against AI Lobbyists
4. Fines as a Security System
5. The Insecurity of Photo Cropping
6. A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green
7. Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine
8. Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
9. Banning TikTok
10. Side-Channel Attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber
11. Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice
12. Dumb Password Rules
13. Nick Weaver on Regulating Cryptocurrency
14. New National Cybersecurity Strategy
15. Prompt Injection Attacks on Large Language Models
16. BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process
17. Another Malware with Persistence
18. Elephant Hackers
19. NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
20. How AI Could Write Our Laws
21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
2. The FBI Identified a Tor User
3. AI and Political Lobbying
4. Security Analysis of Threema
5. Real-World Steganography
6. Publisher’s Weekly Review of A Hacker’s Mind
7. No-Fly List Exposed
8. Bulk Surveillance of Money Transfers
9. US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections
10. On Alec Baldwin’s Shooting
11. A Guide to Phishing Attacks
12. Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
13. NIST Is Updating Its Cybersecurity Framework
14. Ransomware Payments Are Down
15. Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One)
16. AIs as Computer Hackers
17. Manipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
18. A Hacker’s Mind News
19. Attacking Machine Learning Systems
20. Malware Delivered through Google Search
21. SolarWinds and Market Incentives
22. Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
23. Hacking the Tax Code
24. A Hacker’s Mind Is Now Published
25. On Pig Butchering Scams
26. What Will It Take?
27. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
2. Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
3. As Long as We’re on the Subject of CAPTCHAs
4. How to Surrender to a Drone
5. Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
6. Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls
7. Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
8. Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
9. LastPass Breach
10. Arresting IT Administrators
11. QR Code Scam
12. Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
13. Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
14. Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
15. Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
16. Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
17. Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
18. ChatGPT-Written Malware
19. Experian Privacy Vulnerability
20. Threats of Machine-Generated Text
21. Booklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements